to female vampire bats (who will try to nibble off tracking devices that researchers place on their friends). Grooming helps animals stay clean, but there are additional benefits. It can reduce stress ...

Before bats could fly, they used hand-like limbs. Scientists now reveal how evolution transformed those hands into wings.

Island life has given the world’s largest bats their gargantuan wingspans, which can reach nearly 2 metres 1.

Vampire bats, often feared, are social creatures built for survival, not horror. They gently lap blood from animals, a ...

We know animals eat all kinds of things. Some stick to plants, others hunt smaller animals. But a few go for something most ...

The World of Darkness first opened in 1969 as one of the first major exhibits in the world to introduce the public to ...

Many people would not describe bats as cute. This is likely because of bats’ associations with viruses, darkness, and evil. Granted, bats are somewhat weird animals, being the only mammals that can ...

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 ...

Vaccinating vampire bats against rabies can help prevent the spread of the disease to livestock and humans. NPR's Scott Simon talks with epidemiologist Tonie Rocke about a new way to vaccinate bats.

But the most gruesome defense mechanism of any animal belongs to something much smaller. When threatened, this unique animal does something straight out of a horror movie: it shoots blood from its ...

A vampire bat can gallop merrily along, fuelled by a meal of blood consumed only minutes before. Swiggity swooty! A male vampire bat on the treadmill at 10 meters per second. (Price Sewell) This makes ...

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 ...