While some bugs have evolved the ability to detect these comparatively low-frequency ultrasound triangulations, birds have ...

Europe’s largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators ...

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published ...

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude. During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The high-altitude ...

Aarhus University in Denmark put trackers on greater noctule bats – the largest bats in Europe – and heard the distress calls ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it ...

The discovery of bird DNA in bat poo has suggested that a handful of bat species are able to hunt migrating birds.

Foskolos describes the behaviour as “mind-blowing”. As he explains, it’s a very impressive hunting technique, especially for such a small predator. Bats weigh about 30 grams, and these birds weigh 15 ...

Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

Fighter-pilot dogfights no longer blaze across the night skies of Europe, but other fliers may still duel to the death up there. Researchers in Spain propose that bats hunt down migrating birds in ...

New Zealand has named the pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, as their Bird of the Year, despite the fact that bats are not birds. Some have criticized the call as a publicity stunt to recuperate ...

When it comes to powered animal flight, bats have always seemed to come second to birds. But scientists who flew a plane to track the flight of Brazilian free-tailed bats have clocked these winged ...