During the World Baseball Classic in March, Fernando Tatis Jr. sent his bat helicoptering in celebration after launching a home run for the Dominican Republic. In the same tournament, normally reserved superstar Shohei Ohtani “broke the internet” with a bat flip of his own for Team Japan,

In spring and early summer, bats are migrating to their summer habitats and are more active when they get there, so they’re turning up in unexpected place

In a push to better protect the state’s vulnerable wildlife, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) mammalogy team has announced the

Finding an infestation of tiny, biting bugs in your house is always cause for alarm. You might immediately assume that you have bed bugs, but you may have a lesser-known relative of the bed bug: the bat bug. These pests come into houses when wild bats ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. If a bat has found its way into your home, it can make for a surprising and unwelcome ...

The ears of bat-eared foxes can grow up to 5.3 inches long. For an animal that stands 11.8-15.7 inches at the shoulder, that’s enormous. Bat-eared foxes use these specialized ears to locate termites, dung beetles, and other insects, which make up most of ...

More than 40 years after one of metal’s most controversial moments, people still ask, “Why did Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off a bat?” Turns out there’s a side of the story you've probably never heard before, which explains exactly why a bat was ...

Ever thought about buying or building a bat box to help bats? Think carefully about the design and where you put it, University of Illinois researchers say. Here's why: Bats and their pups can overheat and die in poorly designed or placed bat boxes, and in ...

Long before Spanish Conquistadors and Christopher Columbus returned to Europe with stories of blood-sipping bats, European communities were telling tales of undead monsters called vampires. But the vampire bat itself is hardly the agent of evil its ...

GRAYSON COUNTY, Va. (WFXR)- Officials with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) confirmed a bat found on the ground at a residence on Water Wheel Road in Galax tested positive for rabies. The bat was discovered on Tuesday,