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CASPER — A pair of 52-million-year-old bat skeletons found in a southwestern Wyoming quarry ago are believed to be the oldest such remains ever discovered — and have been identified as …
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 \u2014 today represented by more than 1,400 species.
Scientists are still trying to determine which mammals were ancestral to bats.
The study centers on an extinct bat that lived in Wyoming about 52 million years ago.
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two oldest-known fossil skeletons of bats, unearthed in southwestern Wyoming and dating to at least 52 milli...