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, ...

"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 subsist solely on blood: In technical terms, they’re what’s called “obligate sanguivores.” And the three species of vampire bats are the only mammals to have ever evolved this particular ...

We’ve long viewed vampires as lonely creatures of the night — solitary until they feast on human blood. But how true is that myth when it comes to vampire bats? However, these blood-sucking creatures ...

New research shows that just like humans, vampire bats with deep social relationships use similar sounds as one another to communicate ...

If you’ve ever caught yourself picking up a friend’s accent or slang, you already understand a little bit about vampire bats. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

Scientist Simon Ripperger spends his days strapping tiny computers to the furry backs of vampire bats in Panama. These tracking sensors document social interactions in a process called biologging. "We ...

Vampire bats got a bum rap in their association with Halloween and all things spooky and sinister. That reputation has been extended to all bats, which seldom, if ever, morph into immortal ...

The Halloween season features all sorts of animals and the spooky tales involving them. Once you start to learn a bit more about these animals and where their Halloween legends came from, they might ...

Female vampire bats establish an egalitarian community within a roost rather than a society based on a clear hierarchy of dominance that is often seen in animal groups, a new study suggests. Female ...