AUSTIN, Texas — Every March, thousands of Austin residents and tourists look up at the underside of the city's Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue, as they wait for over a million Mexican free-tailed bats ...

Just shy of a mile from the Texas State Capitol, an estimated 140,000 visitors flock to downtown Austin each year to watch a record number of bats take flight. Within the cracks and crevices beneath ...

For decades, Austinites have flocked to the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, drawn by the insistent pull of a predictable spectacle: the nightly emergence of bats. Now, a new, equally ...