Did you know that vampire bats are the only mammals that feed entirely on blood? These little guys are mostly found in Latin America and have some creepy yet fascinating habits. They sneak up on their ...

It may not be what you would expect from the blood-sucking creatures, but vampire bats help their neighbours in need even if there is no obvious benefit to them. Scientists found the flying ...

JUST for the record, vampire bats don’t suck ... to be safe and accompanied by fewer side effects than existing treatments. The hope is that desmoteplase acts to dissolve only the clotted ...

Vampire bats live in female-dominated groups, and they appear to groom and share food with each other equally without regard for social status. Unlike the “strict, obvious female dominance ...

Vampire bats can only survive for a few days if they are unsuccessful in hunting for blood to eat. To prevent a fellow bat from starving, vampire bats will sometimes share their most recent blood ...

when vampire bats are feeling sick, they call out 30 percent less frequently than when they are healthy. And whether intentional or not, it should have a beneficial side effect of limiting the ...

“They’re like you or me,” he said, “if they don’t want to run on the treadmill, they’ll cheat and stand on the side.” But once the vampire bats took to the treadmill, they flexed ...

Microbes may be transferred between vampire bats when they lick and groom one another and share regurgitated food – and this means the bats living together end up with a common “social ...

Vampire bats hit the treadmills in a unique study in which scientists tested how the creatures metabolized the blood they feed on, according to a newly published study. The study, published in ...

For vampire bats ... and fed it to the bats using a pipette. It took some time, but eventually, the researchers were able to train the bats to stop jumping off the side of the treadmill and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source similarly to blood-sucking insects. In their study published in the ...