Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. The common vampire bat, ...

Vaccinating vampire bats against rabies can help prevent the spread of the disease to livestock and humans. NPR's Scott Simon ...

Vampire Bats Kill 4 Kids, Attack 500 in Peru August 13, 2010 / 9:25 AM EDT / CBS Four children have died and more than 500 people have been attacked by vampire bats in a remote Amazon region in Peru.

Scientist Simon Ripperger spends his days strapping tiny computers to the furry backs of vampire bats in Panama. These tracking sensors document social interactions in a process called biologging ...

Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

When Illness Strikes, Vampire Bat Moms Will Still Socialize With Their Kids Studying how bats behave when they’re feeling ill could help researchers better understand how pathogens move through ...

These suckers are fast. 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 … ...

A roost of common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus. Credit: Uwe Schmidt/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vampire bats have complex social networks, forming relationships with other bats that can vary on ...