After the initial reports, the disease, dubbed white-nose syndrome, began to spread across North America, killing millions of bats and driving some species to near-extinction 3.

Vampire bats have three ‘leaf pits’ that surround the nose and receive input from low-threshold heat-sensitive nerve fibres responding to stimuli at temperatures >29 °C (refs 1, 7, 11, 12).

Now Rocke wants to use bats’ tendency to congregate — the reason white-nose syndrome is spreading — to fight the disease. Her team is considering putting their vaccine in a spray or paste ...

A white-winged vampire bat. | Gcarter2, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.5. White-winged vampires will also take their meals in the trees instead of the barnyard.

A European research team has traced the geographical origin of the fungus responsible for the disease to Ukraine. The team ...

There are three types of vampire bat: The common vampire bat, the white-winged vampire bat and the hairy-legged vampire bat. I’m mostly going to be telling you about the common vampire bat ...

There are currently three species on Earth today that do this - the common vampire bat, the hairy-legged vampire bat and the white-winged vampire bat.

There are three vampire bat species: the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ...

The common vampire bat usually feeds on mammals and livestock. The white-winged vampire bat will often climb along the underside of a branch to feed on the toes of a bird.

There are three vampire bat species: the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), the hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) and the white-winged vampire bat (Diaemus youngi).All are found in ...

Vampire bats are the only known mammal that survives solely on blood, and they need to drink it pretty much every day to survive. They support this need through a number of evolutionary adaptations.