A dead bat infected with rabies was found on Durant Avenue, Feb. 28. This finding marks the third such discovery of a rabid animal in Berkeley in the past two ...

Besides being superficial, the feeding bite is apparently painless, for the vampire bat has an anesthetic substance, in addition to a factor Xa inhibitor denominated draculin and a plasminogen: DSPA ...

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the animals on tiny treadmills. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Vampire bats use their thumbs, wrists, and legs to run more than three feet per second to sneak up on prey such as horses, pigs, goats, capybaras, cows, and other mammals.

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 ...

Vampire ground finches (Geospiza difficilis septentrionalis), despite preferring seeds and insects, will resort to feasting on the blood of other birds if conditions are particularly harsh.

Vampire bats have complex social relationships.Feeding on a blood diet is unusual for a mammal and has led to many unique adaptations that facilitate their uncommon lifestyle. Unlike other bats, ...

There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. The common vampire bat, , is the most abundant.

Beyond spooky: Vampire bats weave surprisingly complex social webs There’s more to the common vampire bat than just blood-sucking. Research tracks their relationships and sharing of blood meals.

Vampire bats have the fewest teeth of any bat species: twenty-six in Diphylla ecaudata, the hairy-legged vampire bat; twenty-two in Diaemus youngi, the white-winged vampire bat; and twenty in Desmodus ...

A vector illustration of nine Halloween icons in black and white including a spider web, flying vampire bats, a wasp nest, black widow spider, bat head, centipede, beehive, black eyed susans, and a ...