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>Today's vampire bats are quite tiny; they can easily be enclosed in a person's hand, with wingspans that do not exceed 8 inches. Blood is not a very nourishing diet, so it is difficult for a blood-drinking lifestyle to sustain a large creature. But these small vampire bats once had a larger cousin, who is thought to be extinct. Named the giant vampire bat or Desmodus draculae, this creature inhabited Venezuela and Brazil in South America during the Pleistocene. Its wingspan has been reconstructed as being about 17 inches when it was alive. It would have needed to drink a lot of blood to stay alive.
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