Ancient Texas Hill Country cave once feared as an entrance to the underworld. ... The tricolored bat inhabits the cave due to its cool and stable temperature of 63 degrees.

Famous Texas Hill Country cave open since 1870s closes due to flooding. By Mia Valdez, Boerne Reporter May 28, 2025. Cascade Caverns in Boerne is closed after they were flooded by the recent heavy ...

Texas is the "battiest" state, home to 32 of the country's 47 bat species—and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, nowhere may prove that better than the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A recent acoustic ...

Luckenbach was established as South Grape Creek in the 1840s. Like much of the Texas Hill Country, the community was founded ...

A family from Georgia, Texas and Washington visited a cave in Costa Rica while on vacation and began developing symptoms of a ...

In 1950, the Hill Country population was 800,000. By 2000, it had more than tripled to 2.6 million, and by 2030, it’s projected to reach 4.6 million.

A Hill Country teen is dead after a head-on crash in Bandera County, according to state officials. Bandera resident Valeri Mireles, 19, was killed in the crash, which happened on Texas 173 in ...

Twelve of 13 members of one family fell ill upon returning to the United States from a Costa Rica trip in late December. A bat-filled cave could be the culprit for the mystery sickness.

Mexican free-tailed bats fly out of Frio Cave, Texas, on April 6, 2024. Photographer Babak Tafreshi used a fish-eye lens and soft flashes to create this single-exposure image of 30 seconds.

The victim, 18-year-old Andrew Farias, had recently graduated from San Marcos High School, according to social media posts.