Evidence of Recently Discovered Bat Behavior Found Hiding in Plain Sight in Renaissance Painting

Scientists have recently documented a bat behavior never before recorded: they hunt birds. According to Nautilus, evidence of this predatory behavior has been sitting in a museum for centuries—in a painting by Flemish Renaissance master Jan Brueghel the Elder, created in sixteen eleven. The painter captured the behavior long before biology confirmed it. A striking reminder that sometimes the keenest observations are hidden in plain sight, waiting for science to finally notice.

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