Aarhus University in Denmark put trackers on greater noctule bats – the largest bats in Europe – and heard the distress calls ...

The recording gives it away. First, a sudden plunge in altitude, then distressed bird calls before a prolonged series of ...

After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it ...

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 ...

The discovery of bird DNA in bat poo has suggested that a handful of bat species are able to hunt migrating birds.

The bat—a greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus)—was equipped with a high-tech tag recording its behavior. “There was this ...

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude. During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The high-altitude ...

To exploit a rich food resource that remains largely inaccessible to most predators, Europe's largest bat captures, kills, and consumes nocturnally ...

For nearly 25 years, scientists have puzzled over how Europe’s largest bat, the greater noctule, manages to eat small birds.

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, ...