Rising from the floor of southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, Great Sand Dunes National Park is famed for North America’s ...

A new design for the Texas horned lizard license plate has been unveiled by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

A Texas zoo has released 28 horned lizards back into the wild. This lizard, shown in the video burrowing into the sand, along with the 27 others were released into the native landscape Wednesday as ...

Nectophrynoides comprise only about one percent of all frogs and toads, but that number is officially increasing. In a study published in the journal Vertebrate Zoology, biologists describe an ...

BYU found out a lot about itself in the toughest game played it’s played this year. The double-overtime 33-27 win over Arizona in Tucson forced BYU to jump over a mile of hurdles Saturday night in the ...

When it comes to gambling, many Americans believe a little luck can go a long way. Whether carrying rabbit’s feet or blowing on dice, gambling in the United States is full of rituals and superstitions ...

When Maria Chona was born in Mesquite Root sometime around 1845, her birthplace on the Tohono O’odham reservation was not yet part of the United States. With ratification of the Gadsden Purchase in ...

It’s as close to cold weather as we might get in Tucson this year, so it’s time for me to share with you some of the traditional stories of the Tohono O’odham. According to their owners, these stories ...

The State Fair of Texas is open and ready for revelers! As much as we’ve missed corny dogs, Midway rides and Big Tex, believe it or not, there was another event at Fair Park that was met with even ...

A research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has described three new species of the tree toad genus ...

FOLK BELIEF. Folk beliefs in Texas, like many other elements of folk culture, came with the various groups who entered and ...