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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — From taking flight to getting romantic, animals can go wild during an eclipse. While behavior hasn’t been as documented as one would expect, recent research in animal behavior is ...

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 ...

Hubble, a big free-tailed bat that made a rare visit to Austin, is going back to West Texas after being rehabilitated. Why it matters: Hubble became the first big free-tailed bat documented in Travis ...

If you live in the Austin area, you're no stranger to Mexican free-tailed bats and their majestic flight from underneath the Congress Avenue bridge. So on April 17, National Bat Appreciation Day, we ...

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, ...

The Austin Bat Refuge is giving orphaned and injured bats a second chance by rehabilitating them in a safe environment until they’re ready to be released. Meet Virginia Rose, a birder who started a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the words of the beloved and viral video, “it’s frickin’ bats!” And in Central Texas, they aren’t just a Halloween-time sighting; they’re a significant part of the ecosystem, ...