Nearby, a red-rumped agouti — a South American rodent that looks like a large, long-legged guinea pig — scuttled behind a tree trunk. A few feet away, an Arabian sand cat put its paw inside a log to ...

Herrera had some introductory work in the outfield to see if that's a possible option for him when he returns from a ...

The torpedo bats that originally helped vault the Yankees’ 2025 campaign and touched off a craze across baseball, however, are still going strong in many corners of the sport.  More than three ...

Countless Batman symbols have been introduced over the years, either to strike fear in the hearts of criminals or to modernize releases and merchandise. The Batman symbol is one of the most iconic and ...

Even bats in the tropics, where it’s warm all year, store fat in anticipation of dry seasons when food becomes scarce. That’s ...

The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.

Velocity alone isn’t enough anymore. To keep hitters from squaring up torpedo-shaped bats — or whatever bat shape comes next — pitchers must live on the edges and keep hitters guessing.

The late 1800s were a time of “great experimentation” in bat design, John Thorn, MLB’s official historian, told me: four-sided bats and flat bats, bats with slits for springs and sliding ...

Amid bat design mania, baseball continues its trend of making hitting harder and harder with power breaking pitches replacing curveballs.

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

Giancarlo Stanton swung one throughout his playoff surge last fall, but no one in the media noticed, perhaps because of how the pitch-black color of Stanton's bat camouflaged the shape.

That the torpedo bat appears so jarring visually speaks to how consistent bat shape has been for decades.