Sometime before 2016, a common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, was captured or observed within roughly 50 kilometers of the Texas border. The record, confirmed by the USDA’s National Wildlife Research ...

Scientists discovered a new retrovirus “fossil” found in the common vampire bat which is homologous to retroviruses in rodents and primates. The results suggest the recent circulation of an active ...

Also called chronic wasting disease (CWD), zombie deer disease includes excessive drooling, progressive weight loss, and a lack of coordination ...

Reporting today (February 19) in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers describe twice the transposon content in the genome of the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, compared to other bats’ ...

A roost of common vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus. Credit: Uwe Schmidt/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 Vampire bats have complex social networks, forming relationships with other bats that can vary on ...

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The common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is an example of a bat that can live more than four times longer than a nonflying placental mammal of the same body size. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

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