While experts now understand the properties of bat blood which allows them to safely hibernate, how they will replicate that in humans for long-term, interstellar space travel remains to be ...

Though not as common as small rodents in laboratory settings, bats are being increasingly used in research studies. Knowledge of proper blood sampling techniques is essential for care and ...

Details follow for Season 13, Episode 4 of “The Masked Singer,” “Voices of Olympus: Unmasking of the Gods,” which aired March ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. The research, published in the journal Biology ...

Many questions received by the Museum concern the vampire bat. Because the true vampire bat of Central and South America feeds on blood, a popular misconception has been to link it to the human ...

Bat bugs, like bed bugs, feed on blood, but their preferred host is bats or birds instead of humans. Nevertheless, they will bite humans if there are no bats available. Adult bat bugs can live for ...

Too often, popular misconceptions have labeled bats as "dirty," "disease carriers," or "blood suckers," an unenviable—and unjust—reputation to be sure. In reality, the more than 1,300 bat species are ...

Arizona has 28 species of bats that eat annoying insects and pollinate plants. Here's when they come out and what to do if one gets in your house.

Next week, there’s something strange in "The Masked Singer" neighborhood. It’s "Ghostbuster’s Night," when the panelists will ...

Carnivorous bats, known collectively as false vampire bats because they don’t drink the blood of animals, as true vampire bats do, are found throughout the tropics, although in low numbers ...

When a vampire bat bites its victim, it secretes DSPA. This destroys fibrin, which helps blood clot. During the mid-1980s, it emerged that the vampire bat enzyme was genetically related to tissue ...