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Just shy of a mile from the Texas State Capitol, an estimated 140,000 visitors flock to downtown Austin each year to watch a record number of bats take flight. Within the cracks and crevices beneath ...

There are more than 1,400 species of bats worldwide, and 47 of them reside in the United States. Some states are absolutely packed with these flying mammals, while others have relatively few. For ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe’s largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally migrating birds in flight high above the ground, ...

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 ...