STONE Age people had a far more troublesome enemy than sabre-tooth tigers — bed bugs. Their first settlements — like Fred Flinstone’s fictional home of Bedrock — would have been crawling with the ...

Bats modify their red blood cells to become thicker and more rigid when they hibernate – and if we can figure out how, people might one day be able to copy the process for medical treatments or ...

Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal secrets of the special metabolism fueling them from blood consumed only minutes before. This is peculiar since in most animals, including ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...