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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Common rabies carriers include raccoons, bats, skunks, and foxes, with the raccoon variant often spreading to other mammals.

The common vampire bat is the only vampire bat species that's capable of running; it uses a unique bounding gait to move quickly on the ground. Much like gorillas, they use their front limbs to ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered that common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) possess a unique metabolic strategy, burning proteins directly for energy during exercise—a ...

Researchers say it shows "how strongly metabolism can be shaped by a specialized diet" as the diet of vampire bats is relatively low in carbohydrate and fat. Common vampire bats are only about 7 ...

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 ...

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 ...