they quickly spread around the world. The most ancient bat teeth and jaw bones found so far are roughly 55 million years old. Incomplete specimens from Portugal and China predate the newly ...

REUTERS/Handout Last June, a 26-year-old farmer here named Mahama Faatey ... REUTERS/Amir Cohen Intruding into the world’s bat lands gives rise to special perils. Bats are a leading ...

“This is truly a remarkable accomplishment and will have a huge impact on global trade in bats,” Dave Waldein, Red List authority coordinator for Old World bats at the IUCN, who wasn’t ...

According to the researchers behind the discovery, the two specimens are the oldest bat skeletons recovered to date anywhere in the world ... is very rare with most old specimens being known ...