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

Texas Parks and Wildlife said the habitat restoration it's done for more than a decade helped create conditions to support ...

The local toad species disappeared from the park outside of Austin following the 2011 Bastrop County Complex Wildfire.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.