Bats were also seen at the University of Texas at Austin's campus, where an exterminator told the Austin American-Statesman in the early 80s that he used cyanide to kill them over the course of ...

Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune From left: Juno, a hoary bat, and Saber, a male red bat, at the Austin Bat Refuge. According to Lee Mackenzie, co-founder of the Austin Bat Refuge ...

Everything is bigger in Texas—even the bat emergences. That’s right, bat watching in Texas is a can’t-miss activity. There are 47 species of bats in the U.S. and a whopping 32 of these ...

Lee Mackenzie and Dianne Odegard, a married couple who run Austin Bat Refuge, picked up as many as about 600 bats, dead and alive, during the 2021 freeze from multiple Central Texas bridges.

A highly anticipated Texas highway expansion might mean trouble for one of the state's most iconic creatures. Thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats under Austin's Interstate 35 will be displaced ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Did you know that the Mexican free-tailed bat is Texas’ official flying mammal? These bats are beneficial to the state, helping with insect control and pollination. Bats ...

As dusk settled over a Fort Worth city park in June 2022, Manuel de Oyarzabal Barba joined a rotating crew of collaborators for a ritual the group would repeat multiple times a week until September.

Spooky season might be getting a little too real as Central Texas law enforcement officials warn of a bat that tested positive for rabies earlier this week. “Persons who had contact with this ...