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

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

After nearly 25 years of investigation, scientists have solved the mystery. Europe’s largest bat not only eats small birds, it hunts and catches them more than a kilometer above the ground—and ...

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

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

These summer nights are warm and calm. They are very alive with all sorts of critters. The usual nocturnal rabbits, porcupines, foxes and deer move about and feed now. Owls call and search for meals ...