Enjoy beautiful bat photography from conservationist and wildlife photographer Merlin Tuttle Marianne Taylor; Photographs by Merlin Tuttle Today is both Halloween and the last day of Bat Week, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vampire bats have complex social relationships. Samuel Betkowski/Moment via Getty Images You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, ...

Humans are often happy to share food with their friends, but what about animals? Contrary to their reputation, vampire bats are surprisingly social and generous, and a well-fed bat will even ...

Vampire bat pup receives regurgitated food from an unrelated female bat. Credit: Gerry Carter lab surveillance camera video. During a study with captive vampire bats at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

We’ve long viewed vampires as lonely creatures of the night — solitary until they feast on human blood. But how true is that myth when it comes to vampire bats? However, these blood-sucking creatures ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although most people think of bats as stealthy mammals that flit about in the night sky, at least one species has evolved a terrestrial trot never before seen in bats, according to a ...

The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other’s baby. Elisabeth King Foster mother, BD, feeds her adopted vampire bat pup ...