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Just came across this from the National Geographic website.

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Blood-Sucking Vampire Bats Sing Duets

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Oct. 31, 2008 -- Their blood-sucking ways may terrify potential victims, but white-winged vampire bats enjoy such close and cuddly relationships with other members of their roost that they sing well-coordinated duets with each other, according to new research ( Read more... )

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With all the Cryptoid hunting going on these days I decided to look into the origins and history of Chupacabras. While most site Puerto Rico 1995 as the original Chupacabra attack, I've found amazingly similar accounts of "Vampire Dogs" throughout the 1800 and 1900's UK.
The full article can be read hereThere may be a disease that causes vampirism ( Read more... )

I figured I would post the main place on YouTube where people can find David Attenborough -narrated clips - including MANY WTF clips! And yes, I am aware that David Attenborough in and of himself is not WTF nature, he's more likw FTW Awesome ( Read more... )

Because of the combo of recent posts.

There's vampire bats. And vampire finches. And vampire squid from hell (altho they don't suck blood) and Vampyrellid amoebas that go after pathogenic fungi and vampire snails that go after fish.

And there's vampire moths. Calyptra from SE Asia I already knew about, apparently evolved from fruit-suckers that ( Read more... )