Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bracken Cave in Texas is home to 15-20 million Mexican free-tailed bats. Female bats head to the cave every year to give birth.

The park's name is a little too on the nose.

Spooky season means seeing more bats than usual out in the streets. There'll be paper and plastic bats hanging from front porches and taped to railings as part of Halloween decorations, and surely the ...

Texas is a huge state with over 800 different types of habitats for local wildlife, including tons of bats. Thirty-two species of bats call Texas their home, which makes up a large portion of the ...

Janet Debelak Tyburec, of Bat Survey Solutions, measures the ears of an evening bat on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 at Swift River Pecans in Lockhart, Texas. These bats eat lots of different insects in ...

Master naturalists Mary Beth Lampe (from left), Karen Harden and Tina Olivas walk through the Fort Worth Botanic Garden before placing an ultrasonic microphone to pick up different species of bats, ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- The freeze is having a harsh impact on wildlife, and Houston's largest bat colony is at risk. Cold temperatures send the bats into hypothermic shock, and they'll die unless they can ...

Texas’ bat population stands to get new protections under a bill moving through the state Legislature. A year after a San Antonio apartment complex tried sealing an entire bat colony inside a building ...

On a clear September night along the San Marcos River in central Texas, a handful of people in headlamps gathered around a small, noisy creature: an evening bat. Melissa Donnelly, a science specialist ...