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

He not only stuck up for Desmodus rotundus, the scientific name for the most common vampire bat, but described the animals as boons to humanity. Bat-based research led to the development of sonar ...

Hiller and his collaborators are investigating the genetic changes that have enabled vampire bats to thrive. They analyzed the genomes of common vampire bats and more than two dozen other bats ...

One idea about vampire bats that's very common, especially in Latin America, is that most bats are vampire bats. And that's certainly not true. There are only three species of vampire bats ...

Researchers are even considering transmissible vaccines: They could genetically modify herpes viruses, which are quite common in vampire bats, to carry rabies genes and vaccinate large swaths of ...

Thing is, the common vampire bat rarely chases small animals anymore. Instead, it feeds mostly on dozing cattle that have been introduced into the bats' range — mostly from northern Mexico down ...

As average temperatures increase with climate change, experts predict that the common vampire bat, or Desmodus rotundus, is likely to cross the US southern border in the next several years.

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

rotundus, researchers homed in on 10 genes struck from the common vampire bat genome, all of which likely contribute to the creature’s unique physiology, behavior, and most importantly ...

Enjoy beautiful bat photography from conservationist and wildlife photographer Merlin Tuttle Marianne Taylor; Photographs by Merlin Tuttle Today is both Halloween and the last day of Bat Week ...