| prenatal cranial bone development of thomas's horseshoe bat (rhinolophus thomasi): with special reference to petrosal morphology. | cochlear morphology has been regarded as one of the key traits to understand the origin and evolution of echolocation in bats, given its functionality and performance for receiving echolocation sonar. while numerous researchers have compared adult-stage morphology, few have studied the prenatal development of the cochlea. here, we provide the first detailed three-dimensional description of the prenatal cranial development in bats, using rhinolophus thomasi as a model, with particular interest to ... | 2018 | 29537107 |