Great White Sharks Would Like the Gulf of Mexico Back, Please
With a massive great white shark’s recent record-setting trip to South Padre Island, an overfished (and fear-inducing) species is reclaiming its historic range.
With a massive great white shark’s recent record-setting trip to South Padre Island, an overfished (and fear-inducing) species is reclaiming its historic range.
Hint: Leave those leaves alone!
Fire ants and carnivorous plants are among the tenacious flora and fauna researchers are looking to for inspiration.
Texas A&M herpetologist Lee Fitzgerald has been documenting the lizard’s decline in the Permian Basin since 1993. He's battling much of the oil and gas industry to get it listed as endangered.
The yellow-crested helmetshrike hadn’t been seen in decades—and it wasn't the only little-known species spotted by a UT–El Paso team.
Amanda Stronza pulls over to document coyotes, deer, and squirrels killed along highways.
Marine scientists are trying to save reef-building serpulid worms, which keep fish (and anglers) coming. Can they resurrect the reef in time?
Thirteen black-footed cats have been born at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, in Glen Rose. The felines weigh barely four pounds, but watch out: they’re killers.
Tens of thousands of Texas bats have died from freezes since 2021. It could take decades for the population to recover.
The composer worked with Texas scientists to draw attention to both the beauty of arthropods and the threats they face.
The phantom feline of South Texas is ready for its comeback.
Found in waterways across Texas, the invasive rodents destroy an estimated $1 million worth of U.S. crops per year.
We smelled it so you don’t have to.
The world’s smallest owl is a swift, acrobatic hunter whose victims never hear it coming.
This too-long, venomous creature can be found all over the state. Check your beds!
They flock to our state every winter and are a joy to watch.
Short-eared owls are disappearing along with the Texas prairie. But for now, they’re putting on a show outside Manor.
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . . five feral hogs?
This tropical beauty is expanding its range beyond the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
In cities across Texas, rugged ruminants are chowing down on the plants that plague us.
Folks are flocking to Corpus Christi to see the little yellow flier, which may have blown 2,600 miles off-course in a storm.
Ounce for ounce, rhinoceros beetles are among the strongest animals on earth.
Roughly the weight of a standard schnauzer, the plant-eating dino roamed North Texas 96 million years ago.
The diminutive swamp dragon of the Piney Woods has a fascinating life cycle. Just don’t eat one.
Investigators are finding new ways to catch smugglers, but high demand from China, weak laws, and cartel involvement are making enforcement harder than ever.
That’s why farmers and ranchers consider it a friend.
Alligator snapping turtle populations in Texas were dwindling. One family of smugglers had been poaching them from the state for years.
Nathaniel Hall’s canines can also find pollutants and agricultural pests.
Found along Texas’s southwestern border, the creature has a mug only a mother could love.
Butterfly wings, tarantula legs, and “Frankenstein” beetles—the insect taxidermists of Pinned Ptera find the beauty in it all.
They’re hard-shelled escape artists—and faster than you think.
Found in the state’s riverways, the spiny softshell looks like a cross between a brontosaurus and a pancake.
After washing up on the coast of Wales, she was nursed back to health, flown home to Texas, and then released in Galveston.
Congrats to new parents Raani, Snaggle, and Big Boy—and the zookeepers who worked for years to help bring their toothy babies into being.
The world’s biggest fish swims in the Gulf, but much about it remains a mystery.
I recently had a terrifying run-in with one in a West Texas stock tank.
Austin’s urban bat colony has nothing on this.
Just as scientists begin to understand the Rice’s whale, environmentalists contend in a lawsuit that it may be threatened by a proposed offshore oil terminal.
As the invasive beetle carves a path through Texas, state and federal officials are searching for solutions.
In the half-century since a troop of Japanese macaques arrived in Texas, a truly wild tale has played out.
They’re colonies of tiny creatures that drift with the tides.
It’s named for frontier naturalist Gabriel Marnoch, who led a life of crime while discovering new species.
Anglers love to hate this slimy Texas fish, but its parental skills are unmatched.
Our backyards don't seem to be lighting up like they used to.
It’s, uh, kind of X-rated.
Anglers used to dismiss it as a “trash fish.” Now fishermen (and scientists) are recognizing the gar for the amazing creature it is.
West Texas is home to some of the world's most spectacular fossils, from the gentle moose camel to the fearsome tusked swamp beast.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a bird crashing into a plane!
Fewer than 200 of the birds remain in the wild. Every spring, they put on a vibrant mating display.
Aggressive birds are ruffling feathers in an over-55 Georgetown neighborhood. Residents have fended off the gobblers with decorative pillows and golf clubs.