Bret Weinstein
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The bulk of the species are tropical.
And the other is that the majority of bats are small with spindly limbs.
What that means is that they don't fossilize well.
Tropics are not a good place for fossilization, and bats are not a good candidate for fossilization.
And so unfortunately, the fossil record doesn't tell us a clear story the way it does.
The bird story is getting ever clearer.
We've got good bird fossils in a way that we didn't when you and I were young.
But in the case of a bat, I would say the way to think of it is this.
Have you seen flying squirrels?
I have actually twice seen it.
The funny thing is they're not uncommon, but they are very uncommon to see.
And the reason they are uncommon to see is that they're nocturnal and they are so damn silent.