Animals can be tricky to understand because they can’t speak to us in a form of communication that we can easily comprehend. But this obstacle hasn’t stopped experienced researchers from analyzing ...

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, ...

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WASHINGTON — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. The bats live in South and Central America and are basically “living Draculas,” ...

When actor Ian Somerhalder starts talking about leatherback turtles, you almost forget that he plays the blood-sucking vampire Damon on the CW series “The Vampire Diaries.” “These little guys are so ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s October, so we thought our next Creature Feature should be a creepy one. Why not visit a real-life vampire? Bill McMahan, a curator at the Louisville Zoo, joined us at the ...

Source: Photo by Oasalehm, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. In the wild, vampire bats form long-lasting social relationships with some of the individuals with whom they ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Sebastian Stockmaier, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) You can probably ...