Why can bats fly when mice can’t?
In this article, we see that Nobel Prize winner Mario Capecchi is investigating the question of why bats can fly and mice can’t.
Mario describes some of the work he’s currently doing:
We’ll use the mouse as a sort of surrogate to understand bats. Why can they fly and echolocate while a mouse of the same size cannot?
Mario? Could it be that mice don’t have wings?