So at Minnetonka Cave, members are using the oral doses to ensure the bats get their medicine. This is one of 14 vaccine sites in Idaho, Texas, Washington state, Wisconsin and Wyoming where Rocke ...

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The 'Dracula' bat with a thirst for blood: Jawbone of a giant vampire bat dating back 100,000 years is discovered in an Argentinian cave. Jawbone of the extinct Desmodus draculae species of ...

The rainbow boa having just swallowed the adult female vampire bat, observed in a 450-meter-long cave in Tena, Ecuador. Credit: Sarah Martin-Solano ...

For the first time, scientists have documented a rainbow boa eating a vampire bat, in central Ecuador's Castillo Cave. The research team, led by Sarah Martin-Solano from the country's Universidad ...

As many as 500,000 bats live at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, and officials there wonder if a recent visitor took vampire lore a bit too seriously — by bringing a wooden stake to the colony ...

The common vampire bat, a nocturnal cave-dweller with a 7-inch wingspan, inhabits parts of Mexico, Central America and South America. It feeds on the blood of livestock such as cattle and horses.

Their study, published in Ameghiniana, says that fossils of the giant vampire bat were found inside a cave located near the city of Miramar and date back 100,000 years ago.

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