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

To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...

Aarhus University in Denmark put trackers on greater noctule bats – the largest bats in Europe – and heard the distress calls of robins, before 23 minutes of munching.

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

Bats belong to the order Chiroptera-not Rodentia. They're actually more closely related to primates than they are to rodents.

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a swirl of ...

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Connecticut celebrates Bat Week from Oct. 24-31. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said the week is meant to celebrate the role bats play in the world’s ...

KELLY: Bats flying out of their caves by the thousands, sometimes tens of thousands. Across the world, it happens every night. And for the bats, you might think it was a nightmare, too - a traffic ...