Oct. 23—Just in time for Halloween, Bat Week is upon us. Bat Week, an annual international celebration designed to raise awareness of bat conservation, kicked off Sunday. Bats really do need the help, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freetailed bats fly around Houston, Texas, with the skyline in the background. (Getty Images) Spooky season means seeing more bats ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Not only are our migratory friends, the bats, back in town for the summer, but these cherished flying mammals will haunt the upper reaches of the Texas Science & Natural History Museum at least until ...

FENTRESS, Texas (KXAN) — Troy Swift counted 397 bats swarming out of a tall home near San Marcos one evening. It was the most the pecan farmer had seen since the home had been built several years ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease to hibernating bats, has been found for the first time in Texas. The fungus, caused by Pseudogymnoascus ...

The findings challenge what scientists thought they knew about bats.

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 ...

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 high temperatures in the cave provide the perfect nursing spot.

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 ...