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 ...

It's hard out there for a bat: not only do the flying mammals suffer from a terrible public image (bats do not, as rumor has it, roost in hair or necessarily carry rabies) but their very existence is ...

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, ...

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 ...

BOERNE, Texas – We’ve grown to love our local bats. The Mexican free-tailed bat, which roosts under our freeways and in caves, even shows up on radars during their evening mass exodus to find food and ...