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Fossilized fur reveals color of 49-million-year-old bats

Reuters: Science - Posted: September 28th, 2015, 3:50pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils can do a good job of revealing key aspects of an extinct creature: its bones, teeth, claws, even soft tissue like fur, skin, feathers, organs and sometimes remains of its last meal in the gut. Knowing its color has been a trickier question.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4a3bf28e/sc/32/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Vom89TTAAm0:8HZ5KSDsq1Q:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Vom89TTAAm0:8HZ5KSDsq1Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Vom89TTAAm0:8HZ5KSDsq1Q:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Vom89TTAAm0:8HZ5KSDsq1Q:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Vom89TTAAm0:8HZ5KSDsq1Q:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/Vom89TTAAm0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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