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How the world’s biggest bats got their enormous wingspans Genetic analysis helps to reveal why flying foxes can measure almost 2 metres from wingtip to wingtip. Evolution and ecology of body size in the world’s largest bats 🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) lives in Australia, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago and subsists on fruit, nectar and pollen. Credit: Jasmine Vink
aug 25, 2025, 5:00 pm • 17 2

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