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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on February 19, 2018, 03:14:58 pm
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Meet Vulcanops, Giant Burrowing Bat and Ghost of Gondwana
By Gemma Tarlach | January 11, 2018 12:13 pm
Where might you expect to find fossils of a giant burrowing bat, three times bigger than today’s average bat? Why, in St. Bathans, New Zealand, of course. Vulcanops jennyworthyae, which lived more than 15 million years ago, tells a fascinating story of a lost world.
No offense to Jenny Worthy, the team member honored in the new fossil bat’s species name, but I’m going to call this little beauty by its genus name, Vulcanops, coincidentally the first new bat genus discovered in New Zealand for well over a century.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/01/11/vulcanops-bat/#.Worp3-dG2wU (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/01/11/vulcanops-bat/#.Worp3-dG2wU)