Wednesday, July 29, 2009

NZ "Walking Bat" Had Australian Kin

Scientists thought the agile walking/climbing abilities of the New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat, Mystacina tuberculata, was the result of isolation on an island without mammalian competitors, but a fossil bat from Australia shows it also had similar muscle/bone adaptations. (Eurekalert.)

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