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In 2008, bat ecologist Nancy Simmons published a paper describing a 50-million-year-old bat fossil found in southwestern Wyoming, Onychonycteris finneyi. This discovery showed “features that are more ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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.