In the heart of Belize, bat scientists descend upon the more than 3,000-year-old Mayan ruins of the Lamanai Archaeological ...

You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious ...

"So blood is the only thing they eat. So we didn't have to worry that maybe they'd eaten some fruit earlier in the day, that's not part of their diet. So they would have exclusively eaten blood the ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. This is peculiar since in most animals, including humans, ...

If you've ever thought to yourself, "Gee I sure would like to see some vampire bats on treadmills," then do we have the science for you. That's exactly what a team of scientists has done, and it's not ...

During nightly foraging trips, female vampire bats preferentially meet up with roostmates they have a close social bond with, according to a report publishing September 23 rd in the open-access ...

Source: Photo by Oasalehm, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. In the wild, vampire bats form long-lasting social relationships with some of the individuals with whom they ...

Considering the lack of good treatments for strokes, it probably is no surprise that researchers will consider just about anything. But still, vampire bat saliva? New data released Saturday suggest ...

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 microbiome”.

Halloween is the time of vampires, bats, and other dark figures. But bloodsuckers aren’t just found in horror stories–they ...

Quantifying how the environment shapes host immune defense is important for understanding which wild populations may be more susceptible or resistant to pathogens. Spatial variation in parasite risk, ...

During nightly foraging trips, female vampire bats preferentially meet up with roostmates they have a close social bond with, according to a report publishing September 23 rd in the open-access ...