Renaissance artist uncovered hidden science breakthrough 400 YEARS before today's researchers
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Renaissance artist uncovered hidden science breakthrough 400 YEARS before today's researchers.
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A Renaissance artist knew about - and painted - a modern scientific breakthrough some 400 years before today's researchers, a study has found.
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One of Jan Brueghel the Elder's 17th-century works shows a ravenous bat eating a bird, a behaviour which has only been observed in recent years.Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) titled "Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats," examines an oil-on-copper work called "Air" completed in 1611.Within the painting, researchers were shocked to find a greater noctule bat depicted with a songbird gripped in its jaws.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say For generations, zoologists thought accounts of bats preying on migratory birds were just rumous.But the 400-year-old artwork may have captured the phenomenon centuries before modern science accepted it.Greater noctule bats hunt high in the air under the cover of darkness, where ground-based observation proves virtually...
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