The Alvin Sun is Brazoria County’s first and oldest newspaper and was established on August 8, 1890 as the Alvin News. In 1892, it became the Alvin Sun and was published weekly for many years.

WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Wake County maintenance crew made an unusual discovery after lifting a manhole cover: a large colony of bats living inside an underground stormwater system. Wildlife ...

Bats beware. The ability to fly won’t save you from hungry, determined rats. In a first, brown rats were filmed hunting bats by catching them midair. The finding, published in the November Global ...

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Highlands, North Carolina — In the North Carolina town of Highlands, about 20 feet below ground in a goldmine from the 1800s, there is a race against time to save a bat population whose numbers are ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts. A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a ...

In a dark cave in northern Germany, an invasive brown rat stands upright, balancing with its tail. Suddenly it reaches into the night sky, plucks a bat from the air, and crunches down on it. At first, ...

GRACE. THANK YOU. STAY WARM OUT THERE. AND FOR ALMOST THREE DECADES. WE’RE GOING TO LOVE THIS STORY. SYDNEY BATS HAVE BEEN WELCOMED HOME BY A TRAVELERS REST BUSINESS. I’M SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS EACH ...

Halloween is an opportunity to celebrate that which is creepy, spooky, scary, and sometimes stranger than fiction. And for many, the celebrations conjure up images of two specific animals: spiders and ...

With Halloween celebrations only hours away, many homes, cards and costumes are decorated with images of bats. Most are barely accurate, as the scare factor is more important to the cause, which of ...

Brad Westrich is realizing his childhood dream as he works with bats in Indiana. Growing up in New Mexico and visiting nearby Carlsbad Caverns as a child, Westrich always was fascinated by bats and ...