Bracken Cave, a collapsed sinkhole on the side of a lush limestone hill in southern Texas, is home not only to the world’s largest known bat colony but also to one of the largest concentrations of any ...

On summer nights in Texas, 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from a cave in the Texas Hill Country. Like a plume of smoke billowing from a chimney, the bats spiral into the night sky and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bracken Cave in Texas is home to 15-20 million Mexican free-tailed bats. Female bats head to the cave every year to give birth.

Bracken Cave, 20 miles outside of San Antonio, is the summer home to 15 million Mexican Free-tailed bats. Each night, the bats swarm out of the cave in a “batnado“ in search of food. Fran Hutchins, ...

Stratford Land, the Dallas-based, land-investment company that intended to buy and develop the Comal County property near Bracken Cave, the seasonal home of millions of bats, has backed out of the ...

Every night for thousands of years, bats have poured out of the Bracken Cave Reserve, near San Antonio, by the millions. But conservationists are... Massive Bat Cave Stirs Texas-Size Debate Over ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2026 issue. The gaping mouth of Bracken Cave, created when limestone collapsed into a sinkhole in this rocky patch of Hill Country millennia ago, ...

SAN ANTONIO – A wildlife disease that has killed millions of bats across North America has been detected at the Bracken Cave Preserve. Bat Conservation International announced Wednesday that early ...

You may think of bats as spooky creatures that fly in the dark of night, but it turns out they have a major impact on agriculture and tourism in Texas. Just outside of San Antonio, the Bracken Cave ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Antonio City Council members voted unanimously Thursday to approve a public-private deal to purchase the Bracken Bat Cave, preventing development. The 1,521-acre tract of land known as Crescent ...