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Ancient fish dined on bats — or died trying

Fossils hint that bats’ wings sometimes lodged in fish’s throats, leading the bat-eater to die of hunger.
A fossil of a small bat shown in black.

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 chew1.

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Nature 633, 257 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02847-y

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  1. Vullo, R. & Frey, E. Biol. Lett. 20, 20240194 (2024).

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