Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections

09/03/2026

BATS! Just in time for Halloween…

🦇 BATS: Superheroes of the Night

Discover the fascinating world of bats through science, art, and storytelling!

Superheroes of the Night offers a preview of the 2027 International Year of the Bat, celebrating the world’s only flying mammals and their importance to ecosystems around the globe.

✨ Join us for a special preview event on September 4 from 5–9 PM at Parker Astin Arts Center in Downtown Bryan. (110 N Bryan Ave, Bryan)

Explore natural history specimens, large-format photography, pop-culture-inspired artwork, 3D skeletal models, and research-based narratives.

📅 October 9 – December 18
📍 James R. Reynolds Gallery, Memorial Student Center, Texas A&M University

✨ Meet the Contributors!

Join us on October 9 from 2–4 PM for a special gallery event featuring a live paste-up by BEAST! and special guests.

Photo by: José G. Martínez-Fonseca

Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections

Parker Astin Arts Center | Purple Turtle Art Studio | Beast Syndicate | MSC Visual Arts Committee | FASTSIGNS

08/22/2026

Seeing some superstars in here that contribute time at the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections!!

08/14/2026

Texas A&M University - College of Agriculture and Life Sciences student impact right here! Working alongside the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, students from the Texas A&M Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology who are passionate about birds and conservation led the efforts to have our campus design standards changed and now include bird friendly design in architecture, lighting and landscaping!

08/04/2026

The latest in a long-standing partnership between the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections and Purple Turtle Art Studio! Stay tuned to see some of our previous work, and future projects!

Texas A&M student blends art, a love for animals and science for elementary students to learn with a mural in downtown Bryan

07/23/2026

What an event! Only possible with great support from Rio Brazos Audubon Society, Texas Master Naturalist-Brazos Valley Chapter, City of College Station - Government and Texas A&M Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology!

07/21/2026

Join us tomorrow!

07/21/2026

The Aggie network at work! Grateful for this engagement!

05/21/2026

Excellent research that also made use of specimens from our collections!

Imagine yourself in a parking lot watching a group of crows digging through leftover food near a dumpster. To you all these birds are the same: solid black, indistinguishable from each other, just birds doing bird things. But to the crows themselves the scene is quite different. “Each bird is givi...