You can probably picture a vampire: Pale, sharply fanged undead sucker of blood, deterred only by sunlight, religious paraphernalia and garlic. They’re gnarly creatures, often favorite subjects for ...

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 ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

Blood-drinking bats are probably the most famous of all the Earth's vampiric beasts. Vampire bats are nocturnal animals that live in central and south America. There are three different species: Two ...

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Vampire bats are the only mammals whose diet consists exclusively of blood, and when they find a source they like, they come back for more, feeding on the same individual on consecutive nights. Now ...

A certain Animal Crossing: New Horizons creature has unique features that are only visible in dark environments, making it much more interesting to observe during the night. Like many other creatures ...

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 ...

Female vampire bats donate blood to friends to ensure their survival down the road—suggesting the animals' social lives are much more sophisticated than we thought, a new study says. The findings shed ...