Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?
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Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it.
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One of the rarest snakes in the U.S., the Louisiana pine snake is relatively abundant on a tract of commercial forest in the state. Scientists hope to learn why.
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 15--There's something croaking at the International Wildlife Museum.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 7  /PRNewswire/ -- It's said that everything is bigger in Texas. But today, at least one thing is smaller in the fabled western state -- and Texans are happy about it.
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Every year before the annual Texas-Texas A&amp;M game, Longhorns students, players and coaches gather for the campus 'Hex Rally' to put the voodoo on the Aggies. Recent history bears evidence of some pretty strong magic.
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LONDON - Like the Loch Ness monster, the deep-fried Mars bar has often been regarded as a Scottish myth.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Jun. 21--Maybe it was all the effort focused on state park issues that sucked the wind out of the Texas Legislature's usual willingness to meddle with statutes governing hunting, fishing, boating and other outdoor recreation.
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A record number of Americans own petsâand they are spending a record amount of money to feed, clothe and care for their wee beasts. But is all the attention actually good for the critters? Why we need to remember the lessons of the wild kingdom.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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Researchers will visit the Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the hairy manlike creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch."
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A fabled fossil goes on view for the first time in decades  -  and ignites a controversy
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The discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir.
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Animal Planet has a new snake in the grass. And his name is Austin Stevens. The keepers at the cable network are billing Stevens aka the "Snakemaster" and his new show as the slithery descendant to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, but the South African snake wrangler doesn't even know Irwin by name.
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RAYVILLE, La. - The chief deputy of Richland Parish didn't just capture the 8-foot snake that had stopped highway traffic. He recognized it. That let Chief Deputy Terry Thompson reunite the one-eyed boa constrictor with its owner, who had lost it when he moved to Rayville in March.
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Rains bring out biblical metaphors but drought stricken Texas may be seeing life, both vegetable and animal, renewed all over.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Sep. 14--KENTON -- Wildlife officials think they have seen the first case of a mountain lion preying on livestock in the state.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.