Well-preserved bat skeletons found in Wyoming could be the oldest ever discovered. Dating back over 52 million years, the fossils of Icaronycteris gunnelli offer researchers a deeper look at how the ...

A sharp rise in global temperatures about 50 million years ago may have been responsible for the evolution of bats, Science magazine reports. This warming is linked to an explosion in the diversity of ...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - 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 ...

New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as birds. New Cornell ...

Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight and have correspondingly specialized body plans, particularly in their limb morphology. In new research published in PeerJ Life & Environment, ...