Kiyoko Gotanda received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT), the British ...

For half the year, a little brown bird on the northernmost islands of the Galápagos uses its wickedly sharp beak to pick at seeds, nectar and insects. But when the climate dries out, it drinks blood.

Did you know that there are birds that feed on blood? The animals live on the Galapagos Islands and are aptly named vampire finches. One species is particularly greedy for the lifeblood of other ...