Kenneth Welch, according to a report in New Scientist. This discovery positions vampire bats alongside certain blood-feeding ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal ... rich blood meals – a feat seen only in a few species of blood-feeding insects. This is peculiar since in most animals, including ...

Bats are an iconic symbol of Halloween and vampire bats in particular have earned themselves a ghoulish reputation ... Some species pollinate plants and eat vast numbers of insects, helping to keep ...

Researchers have discovered an infrared-sensing protein channel that allows vampire bats to identify the hottest part of the animal—veins close to the skin’s surface that carry 38 degree-Celsius (100° ...

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 ...

This often occurs in social animals. For example, vampire bats feed only on blood. An individual cannot survive for longer than 70 hours without a meal. Bats that have fed will often regurgitate ...

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 ...