Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand
January 10, 2018, University of New South Wales
The fossilized remains of a giant burrowing bat that lived in New Zealand millions of years ago have been found by a UNSW Sydney-led international team of scientists.
Teeth and bones of the extinct bat - which was about three times the size of an average bat today - were recovered from 19 to 16-million-year-old sediments near the town of St Bathans in Central Otago on the South Island.
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https://phys.org/news/2018-01-giant-extinct-burrowing-zealand.html#jCp
