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A New Species of Bat Has Been Found, And It Flapped Around 16 Million Years Ago – ScienceAlert
There are a lot of bat species in the world today. Like, a ton of bats. We know of at least 1,400 species, and they make up around 20 percent of all current mammal…
There are a lot of bat species in the world today. Like, a ton of bats. We know of at least 1,400 species, and they make up around 20 percent of all current mammal species. It’s the bats’ world, we just live in it.
However, despite bats seemingly exploding onto the scene during the Eocene (the earliest bat fossil dates back to 52 million years ago), in a rapid diversification that has been described as “unprecedented”, the bat fossil record is notoriously poor.
Any new find is incredibly valuable,…
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