Bats have been found to evolve into bigger sizes in exactly the same way in separate locations, in a very rare example of parallel evolution. The findings come from a study of several bats—some very ...

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A University of Melbourne researcher has spotted a rare evolutionary phenomenon happening rapidly in real time in bats living in the Solomon Islands. Dr Tyrone Lavery reports in a paper published in ...