Researchers from the Department of Biology have found superfast muscles in Daubentons bats. Their discovery was published Friday in the prestigious journal Science.

Until today it has been a mystery how bats behaves to broadcast their fast echo calls. But now researchers from the University of Southern Denmark found that the animals' voice lips are equipped with superfast muscles. - We have discovered that Daubentons bats found in Eurasia, has the same type of superfast muscles that rattlesnakes use to rattle, songbirds use to sing with, and toad fish use to hum, says Assistant Professor Coen Elemans of Biological Institute. - This indicates that the kind of superfast muscles is far more widespread in the animal kingdom than we went and thought, he adds. The particular muscle type that scientists have found in bat species Myotis daubentonii is never trail in mammals before. Coen Elemans and John Ratcliffe, who is also assistant professor in the Department of Biology, has worked with research from the University of Pennsylvania, and their discovery was published on Friday, in one of the world's leading scientific journals, Science. - We have analyzed us forward to the muscle contractions of the bat is about 100 times faster than our normal muscles in the body and up to 20 times faster than the fastest human muscles, those that move our eyes, says Coen Elemans. The new knowledge about the bat's muscles can also get people to the good, because the results provide new insight into what happens when muscles become used to the extreme, it said. Read more on the science faculty website. Source: SDU