Q. Halloween brings forth some menacing creatures. The scariest to me is Dracula when he is a blood-sucking bat turning people into vampires. It got me wondering: Are vampire bats real? If so, have ...

Are climate change and hotter temperatures going to result in blood-drinking vampire bats swarming across Florida? Possibly someday, according to a new study published in the journal Ecography last ...

"So blood is the only thing they eat. So we didn't have to worry that maybe they'd eaten some fruit earlier in the day, that's not part of their diet. So they would have exclusively eaten blood the ...

Batman: Year One, Justice League: Doom, and Superman: The Richard Donner Cut are excellent DC Comics movies that everyone ...

The Batman looks up towards Dracula, who is standing on a rooftop against a full moon, with bats flying around him. Image via Warner Bros. With Robert Eggers' Nosferatu already garnering rave reviews ...

There is a new study about vampire bats that, while perfectly timed for Halloween season, is raising alarms for the food supply chain and public health. The study, published Thursday in the journal ...

The following is an excerpt from Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns ...

With gargoyle-like faces, razor-sharp fangs and an insatiable thirst for blood, vampire bats are nightmare fuel. And that’s before they start running. Unlike most bats, which largely avoid the ground, ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A new study found that vampire bats are remarkably good at running by studying how their bodies react to a treadmill. A new study from Biology Letters sought to learn ...

Reaching a 6-foot wingspan is the definitive physical requirement for the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Bats have inspired many pop culture references, most famously vampires. But did you know ...