While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

Human encroachment typically means bad news for a given species (recent examples include giraffes and cheetahs), but one mammal appears to be fighting back. Researchers say the hairy-legged vampire ...

Vampire movies have trained us to expect the worst out of any creature that has "vampire" in the name. We only have ourselves to blame for that, as the vampires from the movies don't exist in real ...

Planning to visit Poland soon? Beware of the vampires. Well, not really. According to the Telegraph, skeletons were found with their heads removed and placed on their legs in the Polish town of ...

In 2006, an excavation of a small island in the Venice lagoon uncovered the remains of a 16th century 60-year-old woman buried with a brick in her mouth. One theory is that this brick was evidence of ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a question that may haunt horror-movie fans and science lovers alike: How long would it take ...

Vampires are everywhere these days. Last weekend, the new vampire film "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" broke box office records, taking in over $70 million and may end up being one of the largest ...

Vampire movies skip the indignities of the all-blood diet. (The endless peeing, the bloating…) Only three mammal species, all bats, have triumphed at vampire living. Evolving as blood feeders “has ...

When these mammals are ill, they have fewer interactions with family and friends, a new study suggests. “It’s like us,” said one researcher. By David Waldstein Vampire bats, those bloodsucking, flying ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Just ...