Extinct Bats Species Discovered in Hawaiian Land

The Hawaiian Islands have long been thought to support just one endemic land mammal in the archipelago's brief geological history, the Hawaiian hoary bat. But  new fossils evidence indicates that a second, very different species of bat lived alongside the hoary bat for thousands of years before going to extinct shortly after human arrived the Islands. The researchers describes the bat whose remains were first discovered in a lava tube more than 30 years ago.

Source: American Museum of Natural History