The findings challenge what scientists thought they knew about bats.

For decades, scientists have debated where bats first evolved, with Africa, Asia and North America among the proposed origins ...

The flying mammals likely arose 65 million years ago in Europe, before spreading to Africa and then the rest of the world, according to the new research ...

Bats most likely originated in Europe around 65 million years ago – not in Asia, Africa or North America as long assumed, an ...

A huge genomic and fossil study suggests bats first evolved in Europe around 65 to 60 million years ago before spreading ...

A new study combining genomes from 103 bat species with fossil evidence suggests bats may have originated in Europe about 65 ...

Bats are cryptic creatures. They inhabit the dark, roosting in hidden, often inaccessible places. And they possess rare ...

Bats are cryptic creatures. They inhabit the dark, roosting in hidden, inaccessible places, and possess rare skills that seem ...

Global Bat1K research combines genomes and fossils to redraw the bat family tree, tracing the origins of flight, echolocation ...

In new research published in PeerJ, researchers from the University of Washington, University of Texas at Austin and Oregon Institute of Technology, led by undergraduate student Abby Burtner, have ...

The largest study ever of bat genome research combined with bat fossils reveals that bats originated in Europe some 65 million years ago, not in Africa, Asia or North America as scientists have long ...

Bats are not only masters of aerodynamic flight — they’re skillful at multitasking while flying, too. By Rachel Nuwer Some humans like to think of themselves as good multitaskers, but bats may do it ...