It was a tense competition. Out of eight bats who were finalists in the Halloween beauty pageant, it was down to the dark-furred hoary bat from Oregon named Hoary Potter — against a western ...

Hoary bats are known for swift flight and wrapping themselves in their own tails to mimic leaves and hide from predators, the agency said. Because of this attribute, it estimated Hoary Potter ...

Competition is stiff — and furry. “Hoary potter just looks like the sweetest little donut, so I’ll vote for him! Tough choice though,” one person commented on Facebook. Several people note ...

In the end, Oregon came out on top for the third year in a row, and Hoary Potter — a hoary bat known for his feisty personality — was crowned the competition’s bat beauty queen. It’s no ...

The ballots have been counted and a champion has been crowned. This year’s most beautiful bat is Hoary Potter. It was named the official winner of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Bat ...

The hoary fox can often be spotted sprinting through Brazil’s Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna.Despite this, not much is known about the small canid, says researcher Frederico ...

Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding about the redpoll finch. On Thursday, the American Ornithological Society—the organization that oversees bird taxonomy—announced that the ...

There are two Oregon bats participating in the contest this year. The first is a male hoary bat named Hoary Potter who will compete in the first round on Thursday. The second is a bat called Honey ...

Most of the squirrels had a dark brown coloring but one was bright white, the study said. A white hoary-bellied Himalayan squirrel, or Callosciurus pygerythrus, in Mizoram. Photo from Christopher ...