Ancient Wyoming Discovery Rewrites the Evolutionary History of Bats
Paleontologists have unearthed two 52-million-year-old bat skeletons from the Green River Formation in Wyoming, marking the discovery of the oldest bat fossils ever recorded. These remarkably preserved specimens, belonging to a previously unknown species, provide critical evidence regarding how these mammals first took to the skies during the Eocene epoch. Contextualizing the Eocene Skies The…