Every evening, millions of bats swarm out of a single cave in Texas, making it one of the most stunning natural phenomena to ...

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 ...

Biologist Loren Ammerman explores Big Bend bats, from Mexican long-nosed to pallid, and shares insights and Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you live in the Austin area, you're no stranger to Mexican free-tailed bats and their majestic flight from underneath the Congress Avenue bridge. So on April 17, National Bat Appreciation Day, we ...

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 ...