Ancient fish dined on bats — or died trying
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Fossils hint that bats’ wings sometimes lodged in fish’s throats, leading the bat-eater to die of hunger.
The small bat Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon , which lived around 50 million years ago in what is now Germany, provided meals for fish. Credit: Peter Zschunke/Associated Press/Alamy
Around 48 million years ago, a few bat-eating fish bit off more than they could chew 1 .
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02847-y
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