Most of Valerie Mansfield’s fifth-graders were afraid of bats when they came to Sierra House Elementary School Tuesday morning. But by afternoon, the students’ fears were replaced with knowledge.

It’s bat maternity season, when female bats give birth upside down and raise their offspring. And you know what? There’s a good chance a mom and her new baby – called a pup – are roosting in a tree ...

PHOENIX — For all the granularity that can be parsed in nine innings of baseball, the sum total can at times feel alarmingly simple. If you ruthlessly take advantage of your opportunities at the plate ...

Sitting in the visiting manager’s office at Yankee Stadium, Brewers manager Pat Murphy declined to go ballistic over the torpedo bats that blew up his pitching staff over the first three games of the ...