Despite their small size, mosquitoes are responsible for killing more humans than any other creature. Some of the most dangerous places in the world are deemed such because of the disease that ...

Q. Halloween brings forth some menacing creatures. The scariest to me is Dracula when he is a blood-sucking bat turning people into vampires. It got me wondering: Are vampire bats real? If so, have ...

Vampire bats got a bum rap in their association with Halloween and all things spooky and sinister. That reputation has been extended to all bats, which seldom, if ever, morph into immortal ...

When blood is given to vampire bats at the zoo, the keepers add an anticoagulant to keep it from clotting or drying up. The bats have an anticoagulant in their saliva that works fine when they feed in ...

There are all kinds of Draculas in this world of ours. Suave Draculas. Killer Draculas. Draculas played by Nicolas Cage. All of them bring something new to the vampiric party that's been raging ever ...

Q. Halloween brings forth some menacing creatures. The scariest to me is Dracula when he is a blood-sucking bat turning people into vampires. It got me wondering: Are vampire bats real? If so, have ...