BLACKSBURG — The common vampire bat kills hundreds of cows in South America every year. As climate change creates unstable conditions in their normal habitat, researchers at Virginia Tech ...

Bats typically eat insects, fruit, nectar, and pollen. However, three outlier bat species make meals of larger creatures: the white-winged bat (Diaemus youngi), the hairy-legged bat (Diphylla ecaudata ...

Bats in the tropics of the Americas are a reservoir for morbilliviruses—a genus of RNA viruses that includes the human ...

Vampire bats feed on blood at night. It’s not easy to find a meal, but when they do, it’s a large one. This leaves them with a surplus. On such nights, they regurgitate some of the excess blood and ...

The researchers found evidence of infection with previously unknown morbilliviruses in several species of bats—including vampire bats, whose blood-sucking behavior facilitates contact with other ...

But a few scientists have provided useful data. During the 1991 total eclipse, cave-roosting common vampire bats and Geoffroy's tailless bats showed no behavioral changes at the Grutas de la ...

In the first period of the game between Buffalo Sabres and the Philadelphia Flyers, a bat flew down from the rafters, swooping around the seats, and finally around the players standing at the ...

The oldest bat skeletons in the world have been identified as a new species, helping scientists fill in the spotty fossil record of these flying mammals and providing new clues about how they evolved.