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The zoo has successfully hatched two new gharial crocodiles. Four crocodiles were hatched last summer. The Fort Worth Zoo the first in North America to successfully repeat the gharial breeding process.

Freshwater mussels can pump and filter eight to 15 gallons of water a day, cleaning rivers and streams. Six of the 50 mussels that call Texas home are federally protected by Monday’s listing.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the migrating monarch butterfly for to its "red list" of threatened species and categorized it as "endangered" — two steps from extinct.

The zoo has paired sets of horned lizards to encourage breeding, then carefully hatch the eggs.

Two pairs of whooping cranes nested on private land in Jefferson and Chambers counties this year. It’s believed to be the first time the endangered birds have nested in Texas since the 1800s.

Federal wildlife managers are considering offering permits to landowners in the Permian Basin that environmentalists say could further compromise habitat for a rare lizard found only in parts of southeastern New Mexico and West Texas.

The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, allowing the…

Three environmental groups are suing the Trump administration to secure federal protection for lesser prairie chickens .