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

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

BLACKSBURG — The common vampire bat kills hundreds of cows in South America every year. As climate change creates unstable conditions in their normal habitat, researchers at Virginia Tech ...

But a few scientists have provided useful data. During the 1991 total eclipse, cave-roosting common vampire bats and Geoffroy's tailless bats showed no behavioral changes at the Grutas de la ...

Scientists have found a way to sample DNA out of the air on a large scale — making it possible to one day track the health ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

But at the base of the trunk is a hole that Garrett can just peek inside. "Now you can hear them chittering," says Garrett, referring to a group of common vampire bats that she knows reside in this ...

"Now you can hear them chittering," says Garrett, referring to a group of common vampire bats that she knows reside in this tree. In fact, she spots a baby on the inner back wall of the trunk.