Bat

Great sac-winged bats are a field biologist’s dream. They hunt insects at dawn and dusk, stay awake much of the day and rest at night.“They like fairly well lit places,” said Mirjam Knörnschild, a behavioral ecologist at the Museum of…

In 2018, scientists embarked on an expedition to study the habitat of an endangered bat species in Guinea, West Africa. One night something unusual emerged in a trap: a new species of bat with a fiery orange body juxtaposed with striking…