Birbat

Birbats (Rhamphorynchidae) are a family of flying reptiles part of the group of archosaurs, known as pterosaurs (also known as pterodactyls), making them the last known members of that once-dominant flying archosaurs (other than birds). The birbats are descended from the early Rhamphorynchid pterosaurs of the Jurassic that adapted over time to deal with evolving birds, and they strangely survived the K-T mass extinction (no one knows why, despite the large pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus going extinct, but it may have been due to some food items of early birbats still being around during and after the mass extinction, or it may have been due to shear luck). Birbats are found throughout the world, including North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, being found in every habitats (even human settlements), except tundra. Depending on a species, birbats are either insectivorous, omnivorous, or piscivorous, and they are either solitary or social flock-living animals, depending on either a species or an individual. Unlike (most) birds, birbat hatchlings are born fully developed and are almost fully independent from their parents, even instinctively knowing how to fly after hatching, although they still sometimes come to their parents when their parents bring them food. Most species of birbats are listed as Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts and/or due to adapting to life in the cities/suburbs, but some species are listed as Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically Endangered, or (as of 17 species) Extinct due to humans hunting birbats, habitat loss, invasive species, and/or climate changes, however, conservationists are trying to protect the remaining species alive today.