From tiny pipistrelles to water-skimming Daubenton’s bats, these fascinating mammals play a crucial role in our environment.

"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 ...

The Batman looks up towards Dracula, who is standing on a rooftop against a full moon, with bats flying around him. Image via Warner Bros. With Robert Eggers' Nosferatu already garnering rave reviews ...

You can probably picture a vampire: a pale, sharply fanged, undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and garlic. They’re gnarly creatures, often favorite subjects for ...

They’re the kinds of creatures that make your skin crawl, but there’s more to “nature’s vampires” than the fear factor.

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source similarly to blood-sucking insects. In their study published in the journal ...

Vampire bats may soon take up residence in the United States and bring with them an ancient pathogen. "What we found was that the distribution of vampire bats has moved northward across time due to ...

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