Geographical Location: Southwest

Frogs experience developmental abnormalities and decreased survival

As Lindsay Martinez researches ocelot recovery in South Texas, she’s looking at more than the landscape of thornscrub that the endangered cat often inhabits. Working with the East Foundation, she’s...

For the first time in 75 years, biologists have spotted sea turtle hatchlings in Louisiana. The Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) hatchlings were found in the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, located...

Throughout the duration of a hurricane, wild turkey mortality likely increases, and the fowl may use their ranges differently. David Moscicki, a TWS member and graduate research associate in wildlife...

A study finds that two groups of scrub jays—one in Mexico and one in Texas—deserve status as independent species. According to the paper, appearing in Systematic Biology, genetic sequencing collected...

Red wolves haven’t roamed the marshes of southwestern Louisiana for 40 years, but their genetic “ghosts” remain there in the DNA of coyotes whose ancestors mated with them, researchers say....

Researchers continue to point to COVID-19 likely originating in a virus carried by bats before it spilled over into an animal at a wildlife market and eventually to humans. In...

In the century since Barbary sheep were brought from North Africa to the United States, they have spread from zoos to ranches to the wild, raising questions about their impacts...

Fewer than 50 ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) are known to exist in the wild in the United States, all of them in Texas. But 40% of ocelots die as a result...

A solar power facility is slated for Texas’s largest remaining section of tall-grass prairie, raising concerns about its effects on the landscape and the wildlife that occupies it. Near the...