The Fort Worth Zoo, over the past eight weeks, has released 718,553 endangered Houston toad tadpoles and eggs into their native range on a Bastrop County site. Since 2010, the Fort Worth Zoo has been ...

A federal judge on Thursday denied a motion from the federal government to dismiss a lawsuit seeking a new recovery plan for the endangered Houston toad. The Center for Biological Diversity, an ...

CAT SPRING - The first time Paul Crump rapped on the door of Paul Nava's house not far from this old German hamlet, he was sent flying by a pack of excitable farm dogs chasing at his heels. The young ...

The Houston Zoo is filled with amazing animals, but one of its biggest talents may be one of its smallest stars. A new video posted to the zoo's YouTube channel shows just how incredible the average ...

FORT WORTH, Texas – The Fort Worth Zoo bred 98 pairs of Houston toads this year and sent out 434,765 eggs and 23,760 tadpoles to a designated, protected release site in Bastrop County. The Fort Worth ...

The croaking of the Houston toad is virtually never heard in its namesake: none of the toads live in the wild in Houston. And efforts to help them live in other areas have run up against drought, wild ...

Endangered species, Anaxyrus houstonensis, commonly known as the Houston toad, sit in containers, Wednesday, April, 13, at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas. The species have been on the endangered list ...

Those Bastrop fires that have scorched 1,500 acres in Central Texas may also have also provided a killer blow to the endangered Houston Toad as the fires swept 60 percent of the toads’ occupied ...

Since 2010, the Fort Worth Zoo has participated in a highly successful conservation program for the Houston toad, an endangered species native to Texas. Since 2010, the Fort Worth Zoo has taken part ...

The Houston toad, once native to this sprawling and humid metropolis, has not been found in the city for decades. Only three hundred are estimated to be left alive in the wild — mostly in the piney ...

BASTROP — Sunlight pierces the clear water of a pond deep in the heart of Bastrop State Park. On a warm day at the end of March, a couple hundred two-week-old Houston toads, still in the tadpole stage ...