New Zealand's Bird of the Year for 2021 is...a bat. That's right, a tiny mammal flew his way into voters' hearts and bested the competition. The post A Tiny Bat Won a Bird of the Year Contest ...

1991’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ gave us a Beast that we've known for 30 years, but he could’ve looked like an entirely different creature. ... He could’ve been a bird, boar, or bug.

They observed in both bats and birds that the shape of the bones within a species' wing (handwing, radius, humerus), or within a species' leg (femur and tibia) are correlated—meaning that within ...

Fog and lasers reveal the wind beneath a bat's wings. Skip to main content. Scientific American. May 10, 2007. 2 min read. Bat's Wing Strokes Unlike a Bird's. ... As birds swing their wings upward ...

Birds and bats evolved self-powered flight independently, says Anders Hedenström, a biomechanicist at Lund University in Sweden. How is still a mystery: ...

The long-tailed bat’s bird of the year win comes from over 7,000 votes (out of over 58,000) from many countries. That’s a lot of support for a tiny flying furry animal.