![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509021342im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Brown-led Team Offers First Look at How Bats Land
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March 19, 2009
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A Brown University-led research team has documented for the first time, how bats land. The results are surprising: not all bats land the same way. The findings, which appear in the Journal of Experimental Biology, could offer new insight into how the second-largest order of mammals evolved.
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