Abstract
It was only about 50 million years ago that bats and flying foxes took to the skies. Insects have been flying for a period seven times as long, and birds for a period four times as long. The pterosaurs, which had been flying through the air for some 170 million years, disappeared due to drastic climate changes towards the end of the Mesozoic Era. Navigation by means of ultrasound has enabled bats to conquer darkness.
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Glaeser, G., Paulus, H.F., Nachtigall, W. (2017). Bats. In: The Evolution of Flight. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57024-2_7
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