A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting ^10.7%

Science News - By Bethany Brookshire - 6/29/2026, 7:00 PM

Hasty Generalization 26.1% - Confirmation Bias 20.6% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 17.7%

A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting Last fall, scientists documented the greater noctule bat snatching songbirds out of thealr for a snack. But while this was a finding relatively new to science, a Renaissance artist knew enough to include the behavior in one of his paintings. “Air,” a 1611 allegorical... more