belizar / Shutterstock. Bats are a staple of vampire lore, but not many of them actually walk the walk: Of the roughly 1,000 known bat species, only three drink blood.

Vampire bats not out to suck your blood Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016 8:38 AM Although not found in Colorado, the myths and lore connected to this little creature are found everywhere.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat ...

Vampire bats have a special sensor on their face, which detects tiny changes in temperature as blood pump through an animal's veins, essentially an "infrared detector". This special sense has only ...

JUST for the record, vampire bats don’t suck. They lap. Under the cover of darkness, the mouse-sized Desmodus rotundus flies out from rocky caves to find a sleeping horse or cow. Its razor-sharp ...

: When vampire bats bite their victims, their saliva releases an enzyme called desmoteplase, or DSPA, into the bloodstream, which causes blood to flow more readily. Several years ago, scientists ...