Phylogenies, fossils and functional genes : the evolution of echolocation in bats / Emma C. Teeling, Serena Dool and Mark Springer -- Systematics and paleobiogeography of early bats / Thierry Smith ..

Bats may have lived in caves and used soundwaves to navigate much earlier than first thought. Of all the mammals, bats have one of the poorest fossil records, with palaeontologists estimating that ...

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they ...

Scientists aren’t sure what the extinct bat would have eaten, but it’s likely it had a similar diet to the big-eared woolly bat, which primarily subsists on insects and small vertebrates. Most bats ...

Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans. For a few years we thought bats were to thank for the existence of butterflies. The idea was that the evolution of ...

Discoveries about giant bats and the science behind their size and behavior. Tears flowed in S.F. courtroom as immigration ...

KEMMERER - Fossil hunter Bonnie Finney says there's no feeling in the world like cracking open a slab of 50 million-year-old rock and finding a fish or bird fossil inside. And what a feeling it was ...

Of all the mammals, bats have one of the poorest fossil records, with palaeontologists estimating that about 80 per cent of it is missing. This has made it difficult to pinpoint exactly when they ...