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

The common vampire bat usually feeds on mammals and livestock. The white-winged vampire bat will often climb along the underside of a branch to feed on the toes of a bird. And the hairy-legged ...

The structure of the wing membrane, the arrangement of the bones supporting ... Sackler Gallery Bats and full moon Smithsonian American Art Museum Vampire Bats, from Lettered Creatures Cooper Hewitt, ...

This bat and the world’s two other vampire bat species, the hairy-legged vampire bat and the white-winged vampire bat, are the only mammals that eat just blood. The common vampire bat ...

Vampire bats apparently don't have much use for a delicate palate. A new study finds these blood feeders can hardly detect bitter tastes. Researchers already knew that vampire bats wouldn't make ...

A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at ...

Scientist Simon Ripperger spends his days strapping tiny computers to the furry backs of vampire bats in Panama. These tracking sensors document social interactions in a process called biologging.

nestled under her mother's wing to nurse. This new arrival is the first captive birth in the United States of a rare vampire bat _ one of two bat species that feed solely on bird blood.

There are three species: the Common Vampire Bat, the White-winged Vampire Bat and the Hairy-legged Vampire Bat, but only the first two species are found in Guyana. The White-winged Vampire Bat was ...

nestled under her mother's wing to nurse. This new arrival is the first captive birth in the United States of a rare vampire bat - one of two bat species that feed solely on bird blood.

By studying and emulating the behavior of the vampire bat, the team created a wing covered in soft fabric that folds into a smaller space when on the ground and rotates around a hinge attaching ...