As they feast, their bodies—covered in fine yellow-brown or gray hairs—become coated in pollen that later cross-pollinates the next flower upon which the bats feed. Lesser long-nosed bats are ...

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.