In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered that common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) possess a unique metabolic strategy, burning proteins directly for energy during exercise—a ...

Huabin Zhao from China’s Wuhan University and his colleagues discovered the bats’ weakened bitter taste when they found a much greater number of the vampire bat bitter taste receptor genes were ...

A single bat can consume one third of its own bodyweight in insects every night. Vampire bats are the only mammals to feed entirely on blood and have tiny infra-red receptors in their nose leaf ...

Doctors are developing a 'Dracula' drug from the saliva of vampire bats which could save thousands of stroke victims from death or long-term disability. The clot-busting substance will break up ...

Nightly emergence behavior of Brazilian free-tailed bats from a cave in south central Texas. This video relates to an article that appeared in the April 1, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS.