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

For the nearly three-year-old female bat soaring into the Spanish sky in March 2023, it was just another night of striving to feed itself. But the bat’s overnight exploits were about to become the ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats ...

After decades of mystery, scientists have finally proven that Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, hunts and eats small songbirds mid-air—more than a kilometer above ground. Using tiny ...

The recording gives it away. First, a sudden plunge in altitude, then distressed bird calls before a prolonged series of chewing sounds. The largest bat species in Europe has been caught in the act by ...

Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis) eating a freshly-caught dragonfly. Co-author Inga Geipel, a research associate at STRI, previously suggested that M. microtis detects silent prey by ...

Common big-eared bat (Micronycteris microtis) approaching a katydid resting on a leaf. Credit: Inga Geipel, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Co-author Inga Geipel, a research associate at STRI, ...