Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed are the oldest bat fossils ever found, and they reveal a new species of flying mammal.

The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 million years ago, are providing insight into the early evolution of these flying mammals ...

An extinct species of bat has been discovered hidden among museum collections.. The new species, Icaronycteris gunnelli, was described from specimens held at the American Museum of Natural History and ...

Oldest bat skeletons ever found described from Wyoming fossils 52-million-year-old fossils support idea that bats diversified rapidly on multiple continents during the Eocene ...

These fossils were previously thought to represent two other Icaronycteris species, which would mean that one bat lineage quickly spread around the world early in the group’s history. But upon ...

The I. gunnelli skeletons are also the oldest bat fossils that have been recovered from the Green River Formation, but they are not the most primitive, meaning not the earliest on the bat ...

More than 500 bat fossils have been discovered at the Messel Pit UNESCO World Heritage Site over 42 years. A new study, published today in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments ...

Tune into programs about pioneering archaeologists, festive bat celebrations and more with the National Museum of Natural History Jack Tamisiea Celebrate National Fossil Day among the hundreds of ...

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.

The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 million years ago, are providing insight into the early evolution of these flying mammals ...