Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

Rather, the new research reveals how vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) make the most out of their primary food source – the ...

Few figures continue to cast such a huge shadow over the metal scene as Aleister Crowley, the famous – and infamous – 20th century occultist. In 2006, Crowley aficionados Dani Filth, Ville Valo and ...

Vampire bats hit the treadmills in a unique study in which scientists tested how the creatures metabolized the blood they ...

The study, published published in Biology Letters by The Royal Society Publishing, has tested how the critters survive on a blood-only diet. The experiments allowed researchers to observe the special ...

teetering on the metal barrier in front of the stage. A moment later, he was surfing the crowd. It served as a lesson that ...

In diabetes, insulin is not properly released or does not function as it should, and diabetics have to monitor their blood sugar and inject insulin, or consume sugar, as needed. But there are certain ...

The investigators used high-resolution microscopy to look into bone marrow and observe the formation of EVs from blood vessels. "No other study in the world has been able to achieve this so it's a ...

Out of over 1,400 currently described bat species, three are known to feed on blood exclusively. To me, as a behavioural ecologist, who is interested in how pathogens affect social behaviours and ...

Blood is not very nutritious, and vampire bats that fail to feed will starve relatively quickly. If a bat returns to the roost hungry, others may regurgitate a blood meal to get them through the ...