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 suggest that ...

Lima, Peru — Bats have become the latest mammals susceptible to H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus responsible for bird flu. In Peru, over a dozen vampire bats have been found carrying ...

For more than a century, filmmakers worldwide have brought vampires to life on screens big and small across hundreds of interpretations. While cinematic bloodsuckers have ranged from the ...

Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez receives funding from The Royal Society, British Cactus and Succulent Society. October is bats’ time in the spotlight, although they are mostly portrayed as spooky and creepy ...

L3Harris Technologies has unveiled a new generation of its counter-unmanned systems platform that includes specialized land, maritime, air, and electronic warfare variants. The move reflects the ...

For the nearly three-year-old female bat soaring into the Spanish sky in March 2023, it was just another night of striving to feed itself. But the bat’s overnight exploits were about to become the ...

When most people think of bats, they likely don't think of cuddly hugs. However, researchers recently captured footage of a group of spectral bats hugging to say hello, The New York Times and CNN ...

In a dry tropical forest in northwest Costa Rica, researchers found a colony of rare Vampyrum spectrum, or spectral bats, living in a hollow tree. The team set up a video camera and over the course of ...