An Eocene Big Bang for Bats
- 28 January 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 307 (5709) , 527-528
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1108871
Abstract
Although bats constitute more than 20% of living mammal species, little is known about their evolutionary history. In a Perspective, Simmons discusses a new bat phylogenetic tree ( Teeling et al.) that sheds light on the evolution of the only mammals capable of both flight and echolocation.Keywords
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