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 ...

Texas’ bat population stands to get new protections under a bill moving through the state Legislature. A year after a San Antonio apartment complex tried sealing an entire bat colony inside a building ...

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 ...

On a chilly day in November, a year-old Big free-tailed bat was minding his own business, doing general bat-like things — flying, swooping, likely hanging out with his family — out in West Texas near ...