Vampire bat pup receives regurgitated food from an unrelated female bat. Credit: Gerry Carter lab surveillance camera video. During a study with captive vampire bats at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

Mike Bodenchuk is out for blood. Every month, the Texas state director of the Wildlife Services division of the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service travels from his office in San Antonio ...

The vampire bat wants to suck your blood, but how does he find it? New research shows that the bat uses specialized sensors near its nose that are extremely sensitive to heat. "What the vampire bat ...

Pity the poor vampire bat. It’s bad enough that it’s called a vampire bat, but lately the creature has been in need of some spin control. Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Although most people think of bats as stealthy mammals that flit about in the night sky, at least one species has evolved a terrestrial trot never before seen in bats, according to a recent Cornell ...

WASHINGTON – If you want to know how vampire bats can survive on a diet that — as everyone knows — consists exclusively of blood, the answer is simple. It’s in their genes. Scientists on Monday said ...

JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, we stay in the Halloween spirit for our "NewsHour" Shares, something that caught our eye that we thought would be of interest to you, too. It turns out the vampire bat is ...

A lot of people are scared of bats, so given our proximity to Halloween, we thought we’d remind you of how polite they are! Today, we stumbled upon the cutest video of a baby bat flapping its wings.

WASHINGTON — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. The bats live in South and Central America and are basically “living Draculas,” ...

During a study with captive vampire bats at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, a young vampire bat pup was adopted by an unrelated female after its mother died. Although ...