I was comforted to hear that I wasn't the only one who'd been awakened in the dead of night by a bat flying around the house. “We’ve gotten tons of calls for bats this week,” said Nate Atwater, a ...

A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 ...

U.S.-based scientists say analysis of the only-known fossil of a blood-sucking bat fly reveals the vampire-like parasites were malaria carriers at least 20 million years ago. The unique specimen was ...

It's bats that suck blood, right? Actually, not in this instance. This image shows a bat fly giving the winged mammal a particularly painful taste of its own nasty medicine - by feeding on its blood.

The first known fossil of a rare bloodsucker called the bat fly has been found in 20-million-year-old amber. What's more, the ancient bug was host to bat malaria, an even rarer find, according to a ...

A one-of-a-kind fossil shows that so-called bat flies — tiny vampire insects that survive on the blood of bats — have been parasitizing the winged mammals and spreading bat malaria for at least 20 ...

It's bats that suck blood, right? Actually, not in this instance. This image shows a bat fly giving the winged mammal a particularly painful taste of its own nasty medicine - by feeding on its blood.