The mighty cheetah has been clocked at 75 mph — the speediest runner on the planet. Perhaps you know that the fastest animal in the sea, the sailfish, cruises through the water at 68 mph. In the sky, ...

Bats aren’t just flying creatures of the night. See how the Mexican free-tailed bat and others can also walk and explore on land.

For the very first time, a fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that’s decimated bat communities in other parts of the United States, has been detected in Texas. According to the Dallas ...

Even a dozen years into crafting beers for Freetail Brewing Co., Jason Davis still finds reason to toast the bat behind the San Antonio brand: the Mexican free-tailed bat. “I certainly learned a lot ...

In a double dose of troubling news, the fungus blamed for killing millions of East Coast bats since its discovery there in 2007 has been found in Central Texas and on a Mexican free-tailed bat — both ...

Approximately 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats — the largest colony in the world — live just north of San Antonio in the Bracken Bat Cave. But like Alamo City residents, some bats prefer an urban ...

The fungus blamed for the deaths of millions of bats on the East Coast has surfaced for the first time in a Mexican free-tailed bat, in Central Texas, concerned state officials announced. It ...

Into the evening twilight they flew, ready to eat half their weight in insects. Each of these Brazilian free-tail bats was roughly the size of small mouse, but there were about 13,000 of them ...

While often misunderstood, bats exhibit remarkable adaptability, with some species capable of walking on the ground. This behavior, seen in common vam ...

In a recent article posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, investigators analyzed whether Mexican free-tailed bats were a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reservoir.

The sound of cicadas humming gives way to high-pitched squeaking. The sky darkens. Some people settle into folding chairs and turn their heads to the sky as little black blobs shoot out of a storm ...