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, Texas — An iconic sculpture that has graced Congress Avenue for years has returned. "Nightwing" by Dale Whistler has returned to its location in front of the YETI flagship store. The piece was ...

A highly anticipated Texas highway expansion might mean trouble for one of the state's most iconic creatures. Thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats under Austin's Interstate 35 will be displaced as ...

As dusk settled over a Fort Worth city park in June 2022, Manuel de Oyarzabal Barba joined a rotating crew of collaborators for a ritual the group would repeat multiple times a week until September.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Have you ever been on the Congress Avenue bridge to watch the bats take flight for the night? Many people, both locals and visitors, enjoy seeing this happen. The latest blog post on ...

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, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the words of the beloved and viral video, “it’s frickin’ bats!” And in Central Texas, they aren’t just a Halloween-time sighting; they’re a significant part of the ecosystem, ...