Mexican free-tailed bats return to Oklahoma for summer ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- This week's freezing temperatures weren't just a challenge for many Houston residents, but it challenged our wildlife, too. The Houston Humane Society says the Mexican ...

About 10,000 Mexican free-tailed bats migrate to the Campbell Bridge in Tucson, Arizona, to rear their young before traveling back to Mexico and Central America. The flying mammals eat their weight in ...

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 ...

BOERNE, Texas – We’ve grown to love our local bats. The Mexican free-tailed bat, which roosts under our freeways and in caves, even shows up on radars during their evening mass exodus to find food and ...

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 ...

Joel G. Brant missed a once-in-a-lifetime chance Friday. He could've introduced himself to wide-eyed youngsters and parents with cellphone cameras: "I am ... Batman!" Brant, by day a McMurry ...

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 ...

Bats are widely known around the world for their role in the spread of a number of zoonotic diseases — illnesses that can spread between humans and animals. “Bats are thought to be the original hosts ...

Bats live a fascinating life but have been given a bad rap for centuries. They have suffered from superstitions and tales of horror that have spontaneously arisen in many cultures. Do they deserve ...

Most Americans tend to think about bats only around Halloween, but the U.S. economy benefits from these furry flying mammals ...

Warfare has produced plenty of strange inventions, but few ideas were as bizarre as America’s plan to turn bats into ...