While you may not want bats in your attic, there are lots of good reasons to want them nearby. Bats have a voracious appetite and have been known to eat up to 2/3 of their body weight per day. No need ...

Unlike their fruit-eating ancestors who could feed in groups at abundant food sources, vampire bats faced the challenge of finding and accessing blood meals from often-alert mammalian or avian hosts—a ...

Charlie Cox Joins Vampire Tale "Eat Local" "Daredevil" star Charlie Cox has joined the cast of the upcoming vampire feature "Eat Local" which will serve as the directorial debut of actor Jason Flemyng ...

As Halloween approaches, you're probably seeing a lot of bats. Whether hanging in school hallways as decorations or displayed in store candy aisles, bats have become a symbol of Halloween spookiness.

Slugs retract their eyestalks when they sense potential harm. This action is not painful for them. When exposed to water, as shown in the video, or to other potentially harmful stimuli such as ...

An increasingly asked question is 'can we confidently link bats with emerging viruses?'. No, or not yet, is the qualified answer based on the evidence available. Although more than 200 viruses - some ...

Contrary to popular opinion, bats are not winged mice; in fact, they aren’t rodents but members of the taxonomic order Chiroptera (meaning hand-wing).

A behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to document rare and fascinating carnivorous bats in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Additionally, vampire bats demonstrate extraordinary prosocial behaviors, sharing blood meals with hungry roostmates and forming strong social bonds. These behaviors have given scientists insights ...

Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli-like trypanosomes have been found in a variety of neotropical bat species. In this study, bats (Artibeus lituratus, Carollia perspicillata, Desmodus rotundus, ...

From vampire bats to flying foxes, these creatures have stealth, mobility, resilience, and even biological advantages other species can’t match. Are they secretly S-tier?