Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the animals on tiny treadmills. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Vampire bats hit the treadmills in a unique study in which scientists tested how the creatures metabolized the blood they feed on, according to a newly published study. The study, published in ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. This is peculiar since in most animals, including ...

Vampire bats in Peru sometimes prey on penguin chicks, but the adult penguins are ready to fight back—with a little help from dirt and even poop. Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) in flight.

There is a new study about vampire bats that, while perfectly timed for Halloween season, is raising alarms for the food supply chain and public health. The study, published Thursday in the ...

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Vampire bats are the only mammals that feed solely on blood. Price Sewell via Rossi and Welch, Biology Letters, 2024 While much of the world sleeps, vampire bats from Mexico, Central and South ...

Postmortem testing revealed that the virus was in his brain tissue, and public health officials later learned he had been bitten by a vampire bat before leaving Mexico. The case marked the first ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

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 ...

Swarms of tiny, bloodthirsty vampire bats are spreading their wings further northward toward the US-Mexican border. Scientists led by a team at Virginia Tech have said they expect an 'invasion ...