A 2-meter guano pile holds information about changes in climate and how the bats' food sources shifted over the millennia, analogous to records of the past found in layers of lake mud and Antarctic ...

Vampire bats feed exclusively on blood, as many people know, but less is known about how or why they adapted to thrive on such a strict diet. There are three species of vampire bats. Together, they ...

A photograph of a Jamaican Fruit Bat in flight. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24 th ...

Banana plantations are a reliable food source for nectar-feeding bats, but their effect on the bat’s gut microbiota is akin to that of a fast food diet on the human gut Nectar-feeding bats foraging in ...

Researchers at Cornell University took to the lab to confirm surprising findings from an earlier field study of bats: that disrupting these animals' natural habitat and altering their diet affects ...

Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat species and identified 13 ...

Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study. Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a ...