On Bat Appreciation Day, it’s time to cast aside old fears and marvel at the bizarre, spectacular, and downright awe-inspiring journey of bats. From the blood-drinking vampire bats lurking in ...

Vampire bats share their blood meals, but they don’t do this with just any ol’ bat. These flying mammals are known to form tight social bonds and build relationships that last for years.

After the vampire bats ate, they were each placed on a miniature treadmill. According to Dr. Welch, the dexterous bats initially used their thumbs to hook into crevices to avoid the moving belt.

Vampire bats have always been present in Panama, and their attacks have ebbed and flowed. “But now the bad cycles have become more frequent,” said Argis Barrios, ...

Vampire bats, native to Central and South America, feed exclusively in the wild on blood from live animals. If they go about 48 hours without a meal, they die.

Vampire bats are obligate blood-feeders. (Image credit: Price Sewell) In the new study, published Nov. 6 in the journal Biology Letters, scientists captured 24 adult common vampire bats along ...

We think of bats as swooping through the air to hunt their prey, but the vampire bat is known to creep along the ground to stalk its prey. Put it on a tiny treadmill, and the crafty critter can ...

Vampire bat saliva has an anticoagulant that increases blood flow, but bats do not actually suck the blood from their victims. Instead, they make tiny incisions and lap up the flow.

The death of a vampire bat 19 days after giving birth presented scientists studying the animals in 2019 with an unexpected chance to observe a rare event: a female bat's adoption of an unrelated baby.

After the vampire bats ate, they were each placed on a miniature treadmill. According to Welch, the dexterous bats initially used their thumbs to hook into crevices to avoid the moving belt.