These suckers are fast. Vampire bats hit the treadmills in a unique study in which scientists tested how the creatures ...

Vampire bats rely on blood-derived amino acids to fuel their activity, scientists have discovered after making the animals work out on tiny treadmills. Most mammals, including humans, rely on ...

For vampire bats, however, it turns out a heaping bowl of amino acid-rich blood will suffice. Researchers from the University of Toronto captured several vampire bats and taught them to run on a ...

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 ...

Credit: Price Sewell Vampire bats rely on blood-derived amino acids to fuel their activity, scientists have discovered after making the animals work out on tiny treadmills. Most mammals ...

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 ...

If you've ever thought to yourself, "Gee I sure would like to see some vampire bats on treadmills," then do we have the science for you. That's exactly what a team of scientists has done, and it's not ...

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 ...

Vampire bats, with their eerie reputation and unique diet, have long fascinated scientists. But how do they survive on a diet consisting solely of blood? A team of researchers at the University of ...

You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and garlic. They're gnarly creatures, often favorite subjects for ...

You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia, and garlic. They’re gnarly creatures, often favorite subjects for ...