This Tiny Bat Smashed a Decades-Old Record to Become The Fastest Flier on Earth
This Tiny Bat Smashed a Decades-Old Record to Become The Fastest Flier on Earth
www.sciencealert.com This Tiny Bat Just Smashed a Decades-Old Record to Become The Fastest Flier on Earth
Good news: one of our fellow mammals – the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) – just smashed a decades-old record for horizontal flight speed, beating out all of the world’s birds.
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This is a 2016 article but this isn't well known information.
The common swift is thought as fastest by most people, myself included, until I learned today that this bat is even faster.