Bats May Have First Taken Flight in Europe 65 Million Years Ago, Study Finds

A major new study has offered a fresh explanation for one of the biggest questions in bat evolution: where did the world’s only naturally flying mammals first emerge? Researchers now suggest that bats most likely originated in Europe around 65 million years ago, during the Late Palaeocene. The finding challenges earlier theories that placed their […]

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