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

According to Science News, Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder captured something remarkable in his work centuries ago: a bat hunting and eating a bird. It wasn't until four hundred years later that scientists would formally document this predatory behavior in nature. The painting serves as an early artistic record of animal behavior that would only be scientifically verified much more recently—offering a fascinating intersection of art history and biology.

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