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One more picture about bat ancient history.
In the early Oligocene in Faiyum, Egypt, young shoe-billed stork (Goliathia aendrewsi) found dead Vampyravus orientalis, floating on the water surface. From time to time bats occasionally fell into water and, though most of them can swim for some distance, part of those bats die out.
Actually, we do not know how Vampyravus looked like because of extremely fragmentary remains; we only know that it was large (about 150 gram) and most probably insectivorous bat.

Description
One more picture about bat ancient history.
In the early Oligocene in Faiyum, Egypt, young shoe-billed stork (Goliathia aendrewsi) found dead Vampyravus orientalis, floating on the water surface. From time to time bats occasionally fell into water and, though most of them can swim for some distance, part of those bats die out.
Actually, we do not know how Vampyravus looked like because of extremely fragmentary remains; we only know that it was large (about 150 gram) and most probably insectivorous bat.