Two 52 million-year-old bat skeletons discovered in an ancient lake bed in Wyoming are the oldest bat fossils ever found — and they reveal a new species. Tim Rietbergen, an evolutionary ...

Oldest bat skeleton ever found by paleontologists finally has a name The newly-discovered species lived in the Western US 52 million years ago. Laura Baisas Apr 13, 2023 11:00 AM EDT ...

The exceptionally well-preserved skeleton was collected by a private collector in 2017 and purchased by the Museum. When researchers compared the fossil to Rietbergen’s expansive dataset, it ...

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 ...

The oldest known bat skeletons and their implications for Eocene chiropteran diversification. PLOS ONE, 2023; 18 (4): e0283505 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283505 ...

The most primitive bat ever found fluttered around about 52 million years ago, but lacked a key feature seen in most bats — the ability to echolocate, hunting and navigating using a kind of sonar.

Photograph by Royal Ontario Museum SCIENCE 52-million-year-old bat skeletons are the oldest ever—and tell a ‘really weird’ tale ...