There is a new study about vampire bats that, while perfectly timed for Halloween season, is raising alarms for the food supply chain and public health. The study, published Thursday in the ...

Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the ...

The most highly social animals form tightly knit colonies and include all ants and termites, some bees and wasps, and a few ... of natural selection at work. Vampire bats (Figure 3) returning ...

Scientists attached tiny "backpack computers" to 50 female vampire bats, 23 of which had been captive for 2 years and 27 of which were wild. They then released the bats back to their wild roost on ...

Vampire bats live in female-dominated groups, and they appear to groom and share food with each other equally without regard for social status. Unlike the “strict, obvious female dominance ...

Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Vampire bats are small, neotropical bats. They weigh about 30 grams, and they drink nothing but blood. The legend of the vampire actually came first before the bat was discovered by Europeans.

Only three out of the nearly 1,400 known bat species are vampires. But did you know that even these species are preyed upon by blood-suckers? “Vampire bats have more parasites than the average ...

As if nature really needed to endow vampire bats with anything more unusual than the ability to fly and a propensity to drink blood, the creatures have been found to sprint along the ground ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source similarly to blood-sucking insects. In their study published in the ...

Vampire bats hit the treadmills in a unique study in which scientists tested how the creatures metabolized the blood they feed on, according to a newly published study. The study, published in ...

Mythology imbues the vampire bat with supernatural powers, but its real abilities are no less extraordinary. Aside from its surprising gallop and its anti-clotting saliva, the bat also has a heat ...