Over the years, we’ve seen the execution of the bat flip expand and its definition evolve. In 2025, a "bat flip" can include ...

Casual viewers of Major League Baseball have probably noticed that players warming up sometimes take practice swings with a peculiar apparatus attached to their bat. It looks kind of like a ring, ...

Studies have demonstrated that ~60%–80% of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in humans originated from wild life. Bats are natural reservoirs of a large variety of viruses, including many important ...

In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking up the sport with its unique design and unprecedented results. Dubbed the "torpedo bat," this innovative piece of ...

Country star Morgan Wallen’s attempt to recreate baseball legend José Bautista’s famous bat flip went awry when he accidentally struck Bautista’s wife with the bat during a pre-concert walkout in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Nafeesah Allen is a multilingual communications strategist and global real estate investor with nearly 15 years of experience. She began writing about home improvement and design over four years ...

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 ...

Bats comprise the order Chiroptera, stemming from Greek origin meaning “hand-wing” to describe the mammal’s unique anatomical feature. The order is the second-largest order of mammals, following only ...

Judith Kaplan, daughter of the influential rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, became the first woman to publicly celebrate the traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Becoming a bat mitzvah, or "daughter of ...