During the summer months, a tornado of roughly 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerges from Bracken Bat Cave. The population swells around June after female bats give birth to a single pup.

Visit Bracken Cave in Texas for the world's largest bat colony, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky for haunted secrets, and Jewel Cave in South Dakota for brilliant rock formations. Adventure to Lava Beds ...

To continue her Texas cave exploration, Jaramillo headed to the Bracken Cave Preserve, a short drive from the caverns. More than 15 million female Mexican free-tailed bats migrate here for the ...

Three of Arkansas’s 16 species of bats are listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. A fourth species is expected to be added to the list soon and has been “proposed endangered.” The ...