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.

According to a 2016 United Nations-sponsored study, 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species (bees and butterflies) and 16 percent of vertebrate pollinators (bats and birds) are currently ...

The aerodynamic wake left behind a bird in flight is fundamentally different from the atmospheric disturbance produced by a bat, new lab tests suggest. In large part, the disparity stems from the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Update: After this article was published, the short-tailed bat was declared the winner of New Zealand's 2021 Bird of the Year competition. For 16 years, birds across New Zealand have battled each ...

Was this the biggest bird ever to grace the skies? With a wingspan of about 6.4 metres, Pelagornis sandersi was nearly twice the width of a wandering albatross, the living bird with the greatest ...