Our Top Ten Texas Critters of the Year
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . . five feral hogs?
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . . five feral hogs?
That’s why farmers and ranchers consider it a friend.
Ghostly axolotls float, sausage-fat skinks dive, and snakes slither in thoughtfully designed, naturalistic habitats at the new Johnson City zoo.
A nightmarish scene in Larry McMurtry’s epic novel triggered my unshakable—and completely illogical—fear of snakes.
From the man responsible for emptying it.
Almost anyone can walk out of an exotic reptile and pet show with a snake, scorpion, or tarantula. But should you?
Plus, home security footage captured a deer hoof-fight over corn feed.
These creatures—some creepy crawlers, some fearsome beasts, some microscopic threats—can and will kill you, maybe.
A newcomer to East Texas thinks it’s fine to dispatch venomous snakes on sight.
A Central Texas mom tries to strike a balance between innocent summertime fun and her worst slithering, venomous nightmare.
The cold-blooded killer met its unceremonious end off of I-35 and was found early on Friday morning.
Probably not rats, though, if this guy is around.
AAAAAAAAAAH!
My short, unfulfilling, momentarily terrifying career as a rattlesnake racer.
What to do if you're bitten by fire ants, lost in the wilderness, sprayed by a skunk, attacked by a shark, stuck in a lightning storm, swept away by a riptide, or caught in any of eleven other worst-case scenarios.
Nothing riles a Texan like a rattlesnake, whose aggression and toxicity account for endless horror stories. Some of them are even true.
At First the Count Was Ten U.S. Customs Service agents in Eagle Pass searched the driver and the passenger of a pickup and found eight live snakes wrapped in socks and pantyhose inside the two men’s underwear. Pass the Boysenberry Syrup or Start Saying Your Prayers Charles Bryant of Missouri
Now is the time to unlearn everything you’ve ever heard about snakebite.
Especially not in Sweetwater: the score at last count was Humans 10,000, Rattlers 0.