The Elgin Courier - serves Elgin, Texas, and wider Bastrop County. Founded by Miles Hill, the paper has been published weekly ...

The Houston toad’s natural habitat has shrunk to the point that it no longer includes the species' namesake, with the toad ...

The fast melt back in March brought many quick awakenings to the Northland. The carpet of spring wild flowers in the woods unfolded about two to three weeks earlier than normal. We saw similar ...

Adult females successfully deposit up to 20,000 individual eggs within a single reproductive cycle. Maintaining the amplexus posture creates a technical hurdle during the critical external ...

"This is the most eggs released in a single year to date in the state park," said TPWD herpetologist Paul Crump.

Often found in suburban backyards, cane toads are likely to elicit quite the reaction from anyone who stumbles across them, thanks to their large, warty appearance. Native to Central and South America ...

A zoo has released nearly 700,000 endangered toads and spawn into the wild - to save them from extinction. On March 27, 690,957 endangered Houston toad eggs, tadpoles and toads were released into ...

Toads are fascinating creatures for several different reasons, but their reproduction process is easily one of the most interesting. Rather than simply laying eggs, they lay meter-long strings of eggs ...

More than one million endangered Houston toad eggs were released at Bastrop State Park as part of a renewed recovery effort.