In the nightly pondside chorus, the Houston toad sings soprano. Its clear, high cry, lasting as long as 14 seconds, trills above the basso profundo grunts of the less gifted. It's a remarkable ...

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 ...

BASTROP - The Houston toad isn't pretty or charismatic, even by toad standards, which are pretty low already. It will never be a YouTube sensation. But the warty little amphibian the size of a small ...

Houston was once home to a species of toad that has long since vanished from the streets and bayous of Space City. Today, the Houston Toad is found in just a handful of Texas counties and was one of ...

Meet Houston toads hatched from eggs that transformed into tadpoles and then tiny toads. At the Houston Zoo, meet Houston toads hatched from eggs that transformed into tadpoles and then into tiny ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - The world's first Houston toads produced by in vitro fertilization using frozen sperm are at the Fort Worth Zoo. The zoo is trying to maximize their population since there ...

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 ...