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A 400-Year-Old Painting Caught Bats Eating Birds Before Science Did


For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific secret about bats and their nighttime feeding behavior – and we've only just spotted it.

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