Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

A Newsweek map shows that United States allies in the western Pacific—Japan, South Korea and the Philippines—are within range of Chinese missiles as tensions rise in the region over territorial ...

A new design for the Texas horned lizard license plate has been unveiled by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The plate marks the 25th anniversary of the Conservation License Plate Program, a ...

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Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to thrive. Trilobites Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 ...

A Texas zoo has released 28 horned lizards back into the wild. This lizard, shown in the video burrowing into the sand, along with the 27 others were released into the native landscape Wednesday as ...

Inside a greenhouse-like structure at the edge of the Fort Worth Zoo is a nursery for hundreds of horned lizards. “They're very charismatic,” Fort Worth Zoo Assistant Director of Ectotherms Robyn ...

This story was originally published by the Fort Worth Report. You may read the original version here. For generations, the Texas horny toad was a backyard pet. As ...

Tyler’s Caldwell Zoo recently announced significant progress in its mission to protect endangered wildlife, with two major conservation milestones this summer involving species native to Texas: the ...

A great horned owl found itself in a seriously sticky situation after becoming stuck in a glue trap in Orange County, rendering it both flightless and food-less. Fortunately, a Good Samaritan found ...

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