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 ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered that common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) possess a unique metabolic ...

The vampire bat might be nature’s purest super-villain. But it’s not the only flyer known to subsist off of the blood of its ...

The genome of D. rotundus also possesses fewer endogenous retroviral elements, perhaps due to an expansion of antiretroviral genes, compared to bat species that don’t live off blood. “It is clear that ...

Bats are an iconic symbol of Halloween and vampire bats in particular have earned themselves ... It also doesn't help that three species feast on blood. Despite their diet, bats are incredibly ...

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 ...

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 ...