It also bested a Townsend’s big-eared bat named "Sir Flaps-A ... for seeker on this year’s Quidditch team,” referring to the game in Harry Potter that is played on flying brooms.

Australia's Harry Potter during a team run at The Lensbury ... This undated image provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows the bat Hoary Potter. (Emma Busk/Bureau of Land Management via ...

Australia's Harry Potter during a team run at The Lensbury ... This undated image provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows the bat Hoary Potter. (Emma Busk/Bureau of Land Management via ...

Australia's Harry Potter during a team run at The ... Read full article: He’s fast, feisty and could play Quidditch. Meet the bat that won a beauty contest A winged creature from Oregon has ...

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It has always rather amused me whenever I stumble across a subreddit or Quora post discussing the merits — or lack thereof — ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – The body of an Indiana bat is not much bigger than your thumb. With leathery wings and all, the bat weighs as much as three pennies. Yet the tiny mammal, and its only slightly ...

Could hibernation be an answer? In the recent study, scientists took a closer look at the blood of Egyptian fruit bats (pictured, an animal at Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska). For its next ...