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 ...

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 as ...

AUSTIN -- Experts say the drought is causing Mexican free-tailed bats that hang out under a Texas bridge to change their eating habits and that could get them killed. Hundreds of thousands of bats at ...

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 ...

I had been to Texas countless times but had never visited Austin, the state’s capital. My wife had not been there either and heard there was a direct flight from Palm Springs. So, she arranged a trip, ...