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While some wildlife species thrive well in cities, it's harder for large, insectivorous bat species to find enough food. To get their fill, city-dwelling common noctules (Nyctalus noctula) have to hunt longer than their rural counterparts and yet they catch fewer insects. While rural bats hunt together, their urban counterparts regularly forage alone. These findings, published in the journal Global Change Biology, are the results of a new investigation led by PD Dr. Christian Voigt and Dr. Laura Stidsholt from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW). ....
A new study suggests that bats have a wide range of jaw form, size, tooth number, and tooth position, all of which are highly tuned to take advantage of different food sources. Read more here. ....
Methuselah arrived in the United States in the late 1930s. Click to read more. Methuselah, the world's oldest aquarium fish, could be over 100 years old as opposed to previous estimates that the Australian lungfish was in her 80s or 90s, according to new DNA analysis. ....
Some giant bats are even larger than humans. Click to read more. Giant bats may have been a figment of the imagination in the past but discoveries in the past century suggest they are real. ....
An entire woolly mammoth tusk's worth of CT images were successfully obtained by researchers. Using a more recent clinical CT scanner, scientists could scan the tusk completely.The new technology eliminates the need for numerous partial scans and enables large-scale imaging. ....