The pekapeka-tou-roa, New Zealand’s long-tailed bat, is special for many reasons. Bats are the island nation’s only native land mammal and the pekapeka-tou-roa is just one of two surviving species 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 ...

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The painting, by Jan Brueghel the Elder, with three bats highlighted. (Romero-Vidal et al., PNAS, 2026) For more than 400 years, ...

At first glance, bats and birds appear remarkably similar. Both dominate the skies, possess wings, and have evolved the ability to fly with extraordinary agility. Yet beneath these superficial ...

Bird and bat fatalities at wind turbines increase during seasonal migrations—information which could aid their protection, according to a study published May 10, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS ...