Dallas Zoo sets 46 horned lizards loose with its first-ever wildlife release

typhlonectes:

At Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area, a total of 139 hatchlings
were released, including 93 from the Fort Worth Zoo, which pioneered
breeding programs for Texas horned lizards.

For decades, the
reptile has been vanishing from Texas landscapes. About 10 years ago,
Texas zoos, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials and Texas
Christian University researchers partnered to try to learn how to bring
the critter back to certain pockets of the state…

Also:
Click here to read more about that project and how Texans are working to protect the Texas horned lizard.

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THE CRUMBS

krisym:

Adult, six month old, and one month old

phoneus:

the forbidden dance

they r wrestlin

ariesthedragon:

lizardloverz:

ringostarrlorde:

I took the bbys outside today!!!

Aww look at them splashing themselves so cute ❤

Very pure content.

markscherz:

Meet Calumma uetzi, one of three new species of chameleons we described in The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society today! Is it the most beautiful chameleon species? Well, you’ll have to decide for yourself. But certainly it has an impressive

Here, a male is giving a female the full colourshow, and she is not. having it.

You can read a little more about the new species and request the PDF here!

Photos by Frank Glaw

cobaltdays:

glitterslither:

You need.. you need to unmute…

I’ve waited too long to find this gem again!

the-awkward-turt:

naniya27:

sidneyia:

commode-o dragon

When I went to the island, the ranger told us that they do like to hang around in the bathrooms because it’s cooler in there then outside during the day (Komodo island is at the hottest part of Indonesia)

Imagine running to the bathroom desperately holding your shit and having to face a dragon first before the sweet release of the toilet.

At the reptile rescue where I used to work one of the bathrooms was sometimes used as an infirmary/overflow animal housing. For awhile there was a very friendly and very big savanna monitor living in the bathroom (set up with proper heat, hides, etc).

He was so friendly that he would mosey over and try to climb into your lap while you were going to the bathroom. So you had to do your very best to finish peeing before he could get over to you. Made for some very exciting bathroom trips.

Can’t imagine running into a Komodo dragon in the bathroom.

Source: uno-universal