Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the white-winged bat (Diaemus youngi), the hairy-legged bat (Diphylla ecaudata ...

The transition to a blood-only diet created extraordinary survival challenges that laid the groundwork for vampire bats’ social evolution. Blood is a nutritionally unusual food source—high in protein ...

The vampire bat feeds mainly on the blood of cattle, horses, and wild mammals such as deer and peccaries. It seldom bites humans. When feeding it chooses to land near a hairless area of thin skin -- ...

They don’t sparkle – but they do suck blood. In this video, we dive into the real-life vampires of the animal world, from leeches and lampreys to ticks and vampire bats. We explore how these ...

Vampire bats have been reported in Mexico as near as 12 miles from the U.S. border. “There’s not a ton of consistent surveillance at the border for vampire bats, especially in the more arid ...

Every type of supernatural creature is featured in The Vampire Diaries, from werewolves to witches to ghosts. But at the core ...

RPGs The Blood of Dawnwalker's protagonist is "equally engaging, fun, and meaningful to play" in both his human and vampire forms, say the ex-Witcher 3 devs behind the RPG RPGs Ex-Witcher 3 devs ...

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But how did they evolve to hear better than humans? Well, let’s start with a little lesson in comparative anatomy. Humans can ...

Organizers of a bat-monitoring project beginning next month are looking for citizen-scientist volunteers to help observe the behavior of nectar-feeding bats in the Tucson area. “Citizen ...

Ronnie Sidner’s 35-year love affair with bats has come to a tragic end. Back in the late 1970s, Sidner, then a middle school teacher in Parker, took a field course in mammals at Northern Arizona ...