Every evening, millions of bats swarm out of a single cave in Texas, making it one of the most stunning natural phenomena to ...

Deep in the heart of Texas, deep inside a cave, millions and millions of Mexican free-tailed bats roost together. One square foot of the cave's ceiling can contain more than 500 of them. When it comes ...

Forget festivals and sporting events, the Bracken Cave bat colony is considered to be the largest gathering of mammals on ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas — They are the things of horror movies, yet so fascinating people flock to see them. Every night as the sun begins to set, somewhere between 15 to 20 million Mexican Freetail bats ...

Saturday and Sunday evening just north of San Antonio at Bracken Cave one of nature's small wonders took flight as millions of mother bats who recently gave birth took the air for the first time with ...

SAN ANTONIO – One by one, they emerge, and as the sun sets, they’re on a mission. The Bracken Cave Preserve north of San Antonio is home to an estimated 20 million Mexican Free-tailed bats that are ...

So many Mexican free-tail bats fly out of the Bracken Bat Cave on a summer evening that their spiral path creates a vortex of rising air that helps lift the bats, drawing out even more. In a few hours ...

Disaster declarations are declared, hotels are booked up, and Austinites are picking up pairs of glasses for April 8's total solar eclipse. But one cohort doesn't care about the eclipse at all. In ...