Fuller, the state bat biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, said by the spring of 2020 — as COVID-19 became a global pandemic — bats in caves and across Central Texas were ...

The elite pitching and defense that has kept Texas afloat all season let the Rangers down in Wednesday’s loss.

Other threats to Texas bats. White-nose syndrome isn’t the only threat to bats in Texas. Across the state, wind turbines kill about 200,000 bats each year — and as more are installed, ...

The Texas capital is home to the largest urban bat colony in the world—roughly 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats live under the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin. In ...

In updated information published Wednesday, the Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed nine cases of rabies ...

Critters Hard Freezes Are Killing Texas Bats Tens of thousands of Texas bats have died from severe cold since 2021. It could take decades for the population to recover.

In Texas, bats eat enough insects to save producers over $1.4 billion annually in pest control costs. Free-tailed bats in South Central Texas save farmers up to $1.7 million a year.

A Texas wildlife rehabilitator nursed over 1,600 frozen bats back to health in her attic after many of them fell from their roosts during Houston’s plunging temperatures last week.

Up to 15 Texas kindergarteners were possibly exposed to rabies after playing near an infected bat outside an elementary school, authorities said Wednesday.

Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Texas, a biologist found a dead bat covered in a white fungus — the state’s first official case of white-nose syndrome. Now, scientists are on a ...