Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal ... found that the bats, native to Mexico and Central and South America, burn amino acid molecules found in their protein-rich blood meals ...

A spectral bat in a cage targets a laboratory mouse in leaf litter on a table. Scientists studying these carnivorous bats in Mexico haven’t yet seen them take prey in the wild, so they film them ...

Flagstaff, Ariz. — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has ...

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