The winner in question pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, a tiny bat native to the country. An organization named Forest & Bird tweeted the announcement, seemingly happy for the lesser-known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...