As twilight settles, the world’s most misunderstood mammals take to the skies. Bats, with their leathery wings and mysterious ways, have long fascinated—and, let’s be honest, sometimes ...

How do these night flyers care for their young? How large is a vampire bat? Did you know that some bats eat pollen and others eat fish? During this program, students learn about the world’s only ...

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 ...

Huabin Zhao from China’s Wuhan University and his colleagues discovered the bats’ weakened bitter taste when they found a much greater number of the vampire bat bitter taste receptor genes were ...

How Vampire Bats Suck Blood for 30 Minutes Unnoticed Thanks to a local anesthetic in their spit, vampire bats are able to drink blood from their prey without being detected. That way, they can ...

Casting a shadow on the ruins of a temple at the archaeological site of Hormiguero, a woolly false vampire bat returns to its roost after hunting for dinner. Bats may bring food back for members ...

Bats are an iconic symbol of Halloween and vampire bats in particular have earned themselves a ghoulish reputation. But are they really the bloodsucking fiends they're made out to be? Bats are the ...

A single bat can consume one third of its own bodyweight in insects every night. Vampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood and have tiny infra-red receptors in their nose leaf ...

A vampire bat is held in a researcher’s gloved hands. The bat’s razor-sharp teeth allow it to make an incision in an animal without the animal feeling it. An anticoagulant in vampire bat ...

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