Tag: Texas

617 Texas Horned Lizards Released By Fort Worth Zoo In 2024

617 Texas Horned Lizards Released By Fort Worth Zoo In 2024

The release is part of an efforts with the zoo’s Texas horned lizard conservation program, the texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and other zoo part [...]
50 Juvenile Texas Horned Lizards Released By San Antonio Zoo and Zoo Miami

50 Juvenile Texas Horned Lizards Released By San Antonio Zoo and Zoo Miami

The Texas horned lizards were approximate 2.5 to 3.5 months old at the time of the release and weighed between 3.4 and 12 grams. [...]
Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Dunes Sagebrush Lizard ESA Listing

Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Dunes Sagebrush Lizard ESA Listing

The lizard’s status has for the last several years been a contentious issue for the state of Texas and the Texas oil industry. [...]
Caldwell Zoo In Texas Announces New Texas Horned Lizard Hatch

Caldwell Zoo In Texas Announces New Texas Horned Lizard Hatch

These lizards are an important part of the ecosystem and really, a cherished part of Texas lore. [...]
Texas Congressman Wants to Nullify ESA Protections For Dunes Sagebrush Lizard

Texas Congressman Wants to Nullify ESA Protections For Dunes Sagebrush Lizard

Plufger two years ago introduced a bill that would give oversight of the species to the oil industry and land owners. It has gone nowhere in the Hous [...]
Texas Doubles Reward For Alligator Snapping Turtle Poaching Tips 

Texas Doubles Reward For Alligator Snapping Turtle Poaching Tips 

Folks just need to contact the Texas’ wildlife crime-stoppers program, Operation Game Thief at (800) 792-GAME (4263) [...]
Texas Congressman Files LIZARD Act To Prevent Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Protections

Texas Congressman Files LIZARD Act To Prevent Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Protections

The bill, "Limiting Incredulous Zealots Against Restricting Drilling" Act — or LIZARD Act, would halt federal government oversight of species and to l [...]

27 Texas Horned Lizards Released Into The Wild

Once abundant in much of the Southwest, the Texas horned lizard has disappeared from much of its range in Texas and Oklahoma. [...]

Copperhead Snake Named Red Hot Cheeto Goes Viral

The snake in itself is not unusual at the park, but the name Red Hot Cheeto certainly causes one to take a second look. [...]
Rat Snake Hitches Ride On Politician Adam Kinzinger’s Plane

Rat Snake Hitches Ride On Politician Adam Kinzinger’s Plane

Kinzinger took four photos of the rat snake near the wheel chocks of his plane, and it is quite a beautiful specimen. [...]
Rattlesnake Handler at Texas Rattlesnake Roundup Dies of Snake Bite

Rattlesnake Handler at Texas Rattlesnake Roundup Dies of Snake Bite

This particular festival was showcasing about 18 live rattlesnakes and had about 100 lbs of snake meat to cook for festival goers, according to news r [...]

Former Texas Mayor’s Yellow-Footed Tortoise Returns Home After 38 Days Missing

Diego, a yellow-footed tortoise that was rescued by Daniel Guerrero,the former mayor of San Marcos’ TX two years ago, somehow went missing October 26. [...]

204 Texas Horned Lizards Released Into The Wild

A hatchling Texas horned lizard. Photo by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department The Fort Worth Zoo and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, along [...]
TSA Documents 100th Alligator Snapping Turtle In Texas’ Buffalo Bayou

TSA Documents 100th Alligator Snapping Turtle In Texas’ Buffalo Bayou

The Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) announced last week that it has captured, tagged and released the 99th and 100th alligator snapping turtle (Macroch [...]
USFWS Proposes More Than 1,500 Acres Be Set Aside For Two Texas Salamander Species

USFWS Proposes More Than 1,500 Acres Be Set Aside For Two Texas Salamander Species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing more than 1,500 acres of land in the state of Texas be set aside as critical habitat for the Georgetow [...]
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