Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat
Abstract Sister to the Chiroptera crown-clade, the 50 million year old Vielasia sigei is suggested to have used laryngeal echolocation based on morphometric analyses. We discuss how Vielasia’s discovery influences our understanding of the evolution of echolocation in bats and the insights fossils pr...
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| author | Lucas J. S. Greville Lily Hou Harry A. W. Kumbhani Beatriz Nogueira e Figueira Karen J. Vanderwolf Ryan A. C. Leys Mathumy Sivatheesan Thomas P. Pianta Liam P. McGuire |
| author_facet | Lucas J. S. Greville Lily Hou Harry A. W. Kumbhani Beatriz Nogueira e Figueira Karen J. Vanderwolf Ryan A. C. Leys Mathumy Sivatheesan Thomas P. Pianta Liam P. McGuire |
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| description | Abstract Sister to the Chiroptera crown-clade, the 50 million year old Vielasia sigei is suggested to have used laryngeal echolocation based on morphometric analyses. We discuss how Vielasia’s discovery influences our understanding of the evolution of echolocation in bats and the insights fossils provide to the lives of extinct species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6d955a9710e047abb36572be29bcae6b2024-03-05T19:25:07ZengBMCBMC Zoology2056-31322024-02-01911310.1186/s40850-024-00193-0Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil batLucas J. S. Greville0Lily Hou1Harry A. W. Kumbhani2Beatriz Nogueira e Figueira3Karen J. Vanderwolf4Ryan A. C. Leys5Mathumy Sivatheesan6Thomas P. Pianta7Liam P. McGuire8Department of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooDepartment of Biology, University of WaterlooAbstract Sister to the Chiroptera crown-clade, the 50 million year old Vielasia sigei is suggested to have used laryngeal echolocation based on morphometric analyses. We discuss how Vielasia’s discovery influences our understanding of the evolution of echolocation in bats and the insights fossils provide to the lives of extinct species.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-024-00193-0 |
| spellingShingle | Lucas J. S. Greville Lily Hou Harry A. W. Kumbhani Beatriz Nogueira e Figueira Karen J. Vanderwolf Ryan A. C. Leys Mathumy Sivatheesan Thomas P. Pianta Liam P. McGuire Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat BMC Zoology |
| title | Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat |
| title_full | Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat |
| title_fullStr | Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat |
| title_full_unstemmed | Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat |
| title_short | Echoes through time: amazing inferences from a fossil bat |
| title_sort | echoes through time amazing inferences from a fossil bat |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-024-00193-0 |
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