Earlier this year, Natural England changed rules protecting rare Barbastelle bats, which live on the route of the proposed ...

Spy on curious meerkats in El Paso, adore the Houston Zoo’s baby giraffe, or watch North Texas bats snooze in tiny hammocks.

Vampire bats’ main fuel source is the blood they drink, scientists have confirmed – after putting the creatures on a treadmill. Most animals, including humans, use carbohydrates as their ...

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 ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source similarly to blood-sucking insects. In their study published in the ...

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 ...

They're gnarly creatures, often favorite subjects for movies or books. Luckily, they're only imaginary … or are they? There are real vampires in the world of bats. Out of over 1,400 currently ...

Bats have been found roosting in a purpose-built barn next to a major road upgrade. The bespoke bat house was built in 2022 near a new stretch of dual-carriageway on the A30 in Cornwall that ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This undated image provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows the bat Hoary Potter. (Emma Busk/Bureau ...

ASHLAND, Ore. — For the third year in a row a bat from Oregon has won the 2024 Bat Beauty Contest. Halloween is the last day of International Bat Week, and the day Hoary Potter, a hoary bat ...

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Emma Busk / Bureau of Land Management A bat from Southern Oregon has been crowned the winner of the Bureau of Land Management’s annual Bat Beauty Contest. It’s the third consecutive year that ...