Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It has long been known Ozzy Osbourne has a taste for bats. But now it seems the ...

The crack of a baseball off a wooden bat is one of the most gratifying and distinct sounds in all of sports, a noise that has helped provide the soundtrack of idyllic summer days and nights for more ...

Turns out, bats and death metal singers have more in common than you'd think — and no, it's not just a love of the dark. Bats have a soaring vocal range — from super-high-pitched clicks outside the ...

Bats and death metal singers don’t just share a dark and edgy vibe—they also share vocalization techniques. According to a new study, bats engage their “voice boxes” much like death metal artists do ...

Attend any area high school baseball game this spring and it's a sound you'll hear over and over again. The sound of a baseball hitting an aluminum bat and soaring into the outfield or being driven ...

In the latest case of “damn, nature you crazy,” we’ve now learned that bats are not only capable of the same vocal techniques that today’s death metal vocalists use to produce those insanely deep ...