{
  "id": 9778365,
  "title": "Where Did Bats Originate? Huge Genetic Study May Have Settled the Longstanding Debate and Rewritten the Creatures' Evolutionary Tree",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/where-did-bats-originate-huge-genetic-study-may-have-settled-the",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-25T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/where-did-bats-originate-huge-genetic-study-may-have-settled-the-longstanding-debate-and-rewritten-the-creatures-evolutionary-tree-180989568/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The flying mammals likely arose 65 million years ago in Europe, before spreading to Africa and then the rest of the world, according to the new research",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}