When you think of the most dangerous creatures on Earth, you might picture big animals like sharks or lions, but the insect world is filled with tiny critters capable of causing serious harm. The most ...

Vampire bats rely on amino acids from their blood diet to fuel their exercise, scientists discovered after observing the ...

Scientists conducted a study on vampire bats, the only mammals that solely rely on blood for sustenance. The study revealed ...

The experiments allowed researchers to observe the special metabolism that sees the bats fueled by blood consumed shortly ...

Fascinatingly, the results show an aptitude for the metabolism of the amino acids in the blood they eat. And, moreover, it ...

A pair of biologists at the University of Toronto has found that vampire bats are able to burn amino acids as a fuel source ...

Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

Health experts are warning of a potentially fatal but little-known disease called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne ...

THE tsetse-flies (Glossina) continue to occupy the attention of entomologists working in tropical Africa. Dr. W. A. Lamborn has now published (Bull. Entom. Research, vii., part i) a third report ...

In restructuring the commission, the president dropped the previous chair, Dr Pamela A. Olet, a former head of the Kenya Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council. But he has retained Dr Mumo ...