Researchers may have just found the answer: Unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds.

Animal sacrifice is older than history. Human beings have slaughtered birds and livestock throughout the ages in attempt to propitiate the gods—to alter fate, to enhance fortune, to pay for sins.

The results not only highlight differences between bat and bird flight, but may help designers of small flying robots—not to mention caped crusaders. To get a grip on bat wings, a Swedish-led ...

Scientists in China yesterday described one of the weirdest flying creatures ever discovered, a pigeon-size dinosaur with wings like a bat that lived not long before the first birds. The dinosaur ...

New Zealand’s Bird of the Year for 2021 is… a bat. Yes, that’s right, a mammal somehow took the top spot in an aviary contest. (Thanks to IGN for bringing this interesting news to our ...

the male bats use them to push their partner’s tail membrane out of the way so they can align their openings and engage in contact mating, a behavior similar to one found in birds and known as ...