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The record-setting flight of a bat that weighs less than a toothbrush

A creature so small that it could fit into a matchbox if it folded its wing made an epic migration.

Nathusius’ pipistrelle bats have a wingspan that tops out at 25 centimetres, but one managed to make a migratory flight across a continent. Credit: Alamy

The record for the longest recorded migration by a bat has been broken by a small, brown, fuzzy creature that flew at least 2,224 kilometres from Latvia to Spain.

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Nature 587, 179 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03103-9

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