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In the vast and sometimes bizarre world of animals, there’s one reptile that takes self-defense to a shocking new level: it can literally shoot blood from its eyes. This strange yet fascinating ...

Venomous snake strikes captured in extreme detail through high-speed videos for first time Can a turtle tuck its head all the way inside its shell? 240 million-year-old 'warrior' crocodile ancestor ...

I am, admittedly, a life-long nature lover and, as a biologist, I’m interested in all living (and fossil) organisms. As such, and because this is a column devoted to the natural world of our area, let ...

Out-of-state visitors may not know what they’re looking at, but fans of Texas Christian University (TCU) get fired up when SuperFrog runs onto the football field. Human-size and gray, with pointy ...

STAMFORD — There’s probably not much chance that if you grew up in Texas and are of a certain age that you didn’t catch and keep a horned lizard as a pet. Of course, you called it a horny toad because ...

When my grandson Parker was 11 years old, he called me from a coastal island with exciting news. Problem was I took the call outside a restaurant with people jabbering and at a spot where I had a ...