Beginning Aug. 26, the south viewing area at the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge will have new features for visitors.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the bat exhibit at the Texas Science & Natural History Museum dispels the spooky reputation of the flying mammals, the ...

AUSTIN — It’s not your average spot for nature watching. The canyon walls are brick, glass and concrete, some of it squeezed into the shapes of billowing sails or owl faces. The crowd, however, ...

Soon you should be able to view masses of them taking off all over Central Texas at dusk. Fran Hutchins, director of the Bracken Cave Preserve, which is owned by Bat Conservation International, uses ...

Austin is considered one of Texas' best shopping destinations as well as a great vacation spot for film lovers. The city is also home to quirky and artsy hidden gems, but that's not all the Lone Star ...

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) — Bats are returning to Austin for the summer, bringing one of the city's most recognizable nightly spectacles back to the Congress Avenue Bridge. Beyond the evening viewings, a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freetailed bats fly around Houston, Texas, with the skyline in the background. (Getty Images) Spooky season means seeing more bats ...

AUSTIN, Texas — One-and-a-half-million bats live inside the Congress Avenue Bridge downtown, and every night around sunset during the warmer months, they leave their home to hunt for a delicious ...

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, ...