This Tiny Bat Just Smashed a Decades-Old Record to Become The Fastest Flier on Earth
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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.
  •  Hirom   ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) OP
    7•4 days ago

    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.