The presence in the fossil record of a giant vampire bat, Desmodus draculae, suggests that this creature was feeding on megamammals like the giant ground sloths and heavily armored glyptodonts. Desmodus draculae was significantly larger than modern vampires and there is some evidence that they lived as far north as northern West Virginia. Presumably, all of the ancient vampire bat species died out in North America following the great megafaunal extinctions of the late Pleistocene. One vampire bat expert, however, was convinced that at least some of them had not gone extinct. “I think Desmodus
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