When bats can't hear, new research finds that these hearing-dependent animals employ a remarkable compensation strategy. They adapt immediately and robustly, suggesting for the first time that bats' ...

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other known mammals, a new experiment shows. The common vampire ...

Eradicating large numbers of bats from buildings or barns is much more difficult since once they choose a place to roost, they continue to return to that site. The best approach is to take preventive ...

Vampire bats have been put on a treadmill as a study showed the special way they use blood for energy - as well as how quickly they can run. Footage shows one bat using its wings to sprint along ...

There are multiple areas on the roster that need to be addressed. The two most glaring holes are a proven big-league bat to plug into the middle of the lineup and the lack of starting pitching on ...

Researchers tracked how vampire bats processed their blood meals as they sped along a treadmill for up to 90 minutes. Trilobites Scientists put the bloodsucking mammals on a treadmill to ...

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If you've ever thought to yourself, "Gee I sure would like to see some vampire bats on treadmills," then do we have the science for you. That's exactly what a team of scientists has done, and it's not ...

For vampire bats, however, it turns out a heaping bowl of amino acid-rich blood will suffice. Researchers from the University of Toronto captured several vampire bats and taught them to run on a ...