Vampire bats are missing something that other bat species have, explaining their ability to live on blood. Most mammals couldn’t survive on a low-calorie liquid diet of blood. Here's why vampire ...

But most recently, researchers including Michael Hiller of Germany’s Max Planck Institute compared the genome of vampire bats to that of 26 other bat species and identified more than a dozen ...

There are real vampires in the world of bats.Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively.. The common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, is the ...

Vampire bats subsist solely on blood: In technical terms, they’re what’s called “obligate sanguivores.” And the three species of vampire bats are the only mammals to have ever evolved this particular ...

Only three vampire species of the 1,400 kinds of bats can do that — the others eat mostly insects, fruit, nectar, pollen or meat, such as small frogs and fish. “Blood is a terrible food source,” said ...

A fossil vampire bat named Desmodus draculae had a wingspan of 20 inches. Seeing that hovering outside your window might lead you to believe in accounts of Count Dracula’s powers of transformation.

U.S. officials have taken steps to prepare for the vampire bat's arrival. The USDA’s National Rabies Management Program released a report in September that said the program implemented ...

With more bat species than any other state, Texas could soon be adding another of the spooky variety. The vampire bat is moving toward the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, Texas Parks and ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat species ...

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