When the sun sets in South and Central America, the vampire bats wake up and fly out in search of animals that can provide vital food, blood. When the vampire bat bites there is a risk of...
Wildlife managers in the American Southwest say a once-rare bat important to the pollination of plants used to produce tequila has made a comeback and is being removed from the federal endangered...
While hunting for dinner, the big brown bat must hone in on flitting insects and keep track of its surroundings to avoid crashing into them. Now, scientists have taken a peek at what’s going on in...
Mail Online
| 4/12/2018
| Minyvonne Burke For Dailymail.com
A lawyer in Canada will avoid jail time for attacking a family with a baseball in the parking lot of a mall because he was suffering from a drug-induced psychosis after smoking too much weed.
Anaheim (United States) (AFP) – Shohei Ohtani flirted with a perfect game in his home pitching debut on Sunday, retiring the first 19 batters to power the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-1 rout of the...
Mail Online
| 4/9/2018
| Jason Chester for MailOnline
A bookish disguise and an unremarkable new home in a shabby caravan are not enough to prevent Pat Phelan and his latest Machiavellian plan being rumbled in future episodes of Coronation Street.
Mail Online
| 4/6/2018
| Chris Pleasance for MailOnline
A college graduate accused of bludgeoning his mother, grandparents and their carer to death with a baseball bat has been indicted on four counts of murder. Orion Krause was found by cops naked and...
Polish drug dealer Witold Kowalski, 27, was jailed for eight years after subjecting a student to a violent attack and robbery at his university accommodation in the coastal resort town of...
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "The Walking Dead," "Still Gotta Mean Something." If you've been wondering about Negan's beloved bat Lucille, Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead" finally...
There’s a certain romance to wooden baseball bats that goes away the second you swing one. For those of us not trying to make it to the majors, using a wooden bat is mostly just a reminder that...
The availability of livestock as a food source for vampire bats influences their immune response and infection by bacterial pathogens, according to a new paper in Philosophical Transactions of the...
LAKE WALES, Fla. — A Florida sheriff says a 16-year-old boy who apparently was jealous that another teen was in a relationship with a girl he liked, invited the boy to smoke marijuana in the woods...
Mail Online
| 3/20/2018
| Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com;Associated Press
A teenage boy has beaten another teenager to death with a baseball bat in a jealous rage after he learned his victim had 'relations' with a girl who spurned his advances, a Florida sheriff said.
Mail Online
| 3/20/2018
| Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com
A man suspected in his girlfriend's murder has tried posing as homeless to escape a police search, but was tracked by K-9 units and arrested. Jon Rodney Bowden, 41, was arrested on Monday outside of...
A Washington DC man who fatally mowed down a pedestrian, attacked two men with a bat, and carjacked three vehicles was killed by a cop on Monday. It was a violent end to Michael Ward's bloody crime...
Two men being detained at a South Texas immigration center have undergone medical treatment for bat bites they received at the facility. According to immigration attorney Laura Figuera, her client...
Using data collected by citizen scientists, researchers have developed new, open-source algorithms to automatically detect bat echolocation calls in audio recordings.
Still think wrestling is fake? Here's Impact wrestling star Eddie Edwards -- after he was bashed in the eye with a baseball bat in the ring ... which resulted in a REAL broken face.
Mail Online
| 2/25/2018
| Daily Mail Online Reporter
A New York City barber was fired from his job last Friday shortly after a violent confrontation with an angry customer landed him in the hospital. The incident reportedly transpired at the...
At first glance, the cost-benefit ratio of a blood-only diet suggests that vampire bats—the only mammals to feed exclusively on the viscous, ruby-red elixir—flew down an evolutionary blind alley.
Prosecutors in Montgomery County, Maryland, charged a known MS-13 leader for ordering the beating of a 15-year-old girl with a baseball bat who had been forced into prostitution.
KENSINGTON, Md. (WJLA) - A female human trafficking victim too young to legally drive a car or buy a lottery ticket was savagely beaten with a bat by a pack of incensed MS-13 members, Montgomery...
Several MS-13 illegal alien gang members in their early twenties were recently arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland for the August 1, 2017 baseball bat beating of an 15 year-old girl for “not...
Did someone send out a bat signal? Graceful bat rays have been spotted by divers all along Monterey's coast recently. The Monterey Bay Aquarium writes, "Bat rays swim gracefully by flapping their...
The Egyptian fruit bat proved the perfect subject for studies of mammalian navigation. Most of what we know about how the hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory formation and...
Historical radar data from weather monitoring archives have provided unprecedented access to the behaviours of the world's largest colony of migratory bats and revealed changes in the animals'...
Scientists have identified part of the molecular mechanism that gives long-lived bat species their extraordinary lifespans compared to other animals. The findings published in the journal Science...
New research from the University of Washington suggests that the Egyptian fruit bat is using similar techniques to those preferred by modern-day military and civil surveillance.
Flitting swiftly through the darkness above the tropical forest canopy in Central and South America, a group of cute little bats with dog-like faces have long been hiding a big secret.
Shawn Mendes played his first Bat Mitzvah Saturday ... the crowd may have been a bit smaller than he's used to, but the price tag certainly wasn't. Sean serenaded 275 13 year olds at an insane bash,...
After months of telling inquiring reporters that she would share her "Weinstein story" when she felt ready Uma Thurman - one of the actresses most closely associated with the Weinstein brothers'...
Two Georgia sisters have been indicted in the fatal spanking and beating of a 3-year-old with a baseball bat for taking a cupcake from the kitchen. The Fulton County District Attorney's Office says...
Two sisters in Atlanta, Georgia, are accused of beating a 3-year-old to death after he snuck a cupcake from the kitchen. Lashirley and Glenndria Morris were both indicted on felony murder charges...
Continuing to bask in the liberal media accolades ahead of Wednesday’s anti-Trump speech, Republican Senator Jeff Flake (Ariz.) appeared on the CNN International and PBS show Amanpour, making nice...
An artist's impression of a New Zealand burrowing bat, Mystacina robusta, that went extinct last century. The new fossil find, Vulcanops jennyworthyae, that lived millions of years ago in New...
Mail Online
| 1/5/2018
| Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
The Pentagon has launched a new competition for the design of laser-powered drones inspired by bats and insects. In an announcement this week, the Department of Defense revealed its new DESI pilot...
Mail Online
| 12/27/2017
| Katie French For Mailonline
Britain has a global reputation as animal lovers who will go to any lengths to save a creature from discomfort. And no-one knows this better the hard workers at the RSPCA who uphold this national...
Bats are not a very common pet. Because they are wild animals and need special care to thrive, they do not last very long in captivity. They can live for up to 25 years in the wild, but ones kept...
Mail Online
| 12/10/2017
| Hannah Parry For Dailymail.com
A Manhattan couple are suing a hotel over claims they ruined their daughter's $37,000 bat mitzvah. Nancy Held said in her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit that she's been planning the event for her...
A Canadian family was forced to endure a hellish encounter when a man wielding a baseball bat approached them in a parking lot and began bellowing “ISIS!” at them.
Mail Online
| 12/8/2017
| Jessa Schroeder For Dailymail.com;Associated Press
Two suspects arrested in the murder of a 51-year-old Hawaiian house cleaner have been identified as a local couple. Stephen Brown, 23, and Hailey Kai Dandurand, 20, were taken into custody late...
Two people have been arrested after a 51-year-old woman was found dead at a Honolulu, Hawaii holiday home. Deputy Chief John McCarthy says Telma Boinville, was killed in a rental home that she had...
Who doesn’t want a man cave? How about a bat cave? Sort - Houston - Man - Week - Bat Well, that’s sort of what one Houston man got this week when he found a dead bat outside of his Portofino Landing...
Mail Online
| 11/10/2017
| Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com
Police in Philadelphia are searching for two suspects who were captured on surveillance video savagely beating a man with a baseball bat and leaving him for dead at a gas station.
If it were true, it would be good news. Worse still, Fish and Wildlife may be seeking to eliminate potentially thorny legal problems that come with a federally regulated species by making threats to...
Mail Online
| 11/7/2017
| Nkayla Afshariyan For Daily Mail Australia
Australian's are used to all sorts of strange animal encounters, which now includes a snake attempting to eat a bat in Brisbane. In a video taken by Redland's Snake Catcher, Tony Morrison captured...
Yuli Gurriel tipped his helmet to Yu Darvish ahead of his first at bat in Game 7 of the World Series in what appeared to be an acknowledgement of his wrongdoing.
On Tuesday night, a pedestrian was wondering in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago, where the unexpected happened. A man began beating him with a baseball bat and critically...
Tis the season … for stockpiling copious amounts of garlic, crosses and holy water to fight vampires. Vampire bats, to be specific. OK, maybe that’s just in the movies, but according to Popular...