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Fossil of huge 'walking' bat discovered in New Zealand

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« on: June 20, 2015, 08:52:32 pm »

A battle of the vampires, 20 million years ago?

Date:
    February 3, 2012
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    Oregon State University
Summary:
    They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been doing their noxious business with bats for at least 20 million years.




Bat fly in amber. This is the only known fossil of a bat fly, a specimen at least 20 million years old that carried malaria and fed on the blood of bats.
Credit: George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University

They are tiny, ugly, disease-carrying little blood-suckers that most people have never seen or heard of, but a new discovery in a one-of-a-kind fossil shows that "bat flies" have been doing their noxious business with bats for at least 20 million years.
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