Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood

Scientists figure out how vampire bats got a taste for blood

March 28, 2022 16:00 pm

Scientists have figured out why vampire bats are the only mammals that can survive on a diet of just blood. They compared the genome of common vampire bats to 26 other bat species and identified 13 genes that are missing or no longer work in vampire bats.

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