The Gandak river has emerged as a prominent sanctuary for gharials in India, now housing more than 1,000 of these unique fish-eating crocodiles. Dedicated conservation initiatives have led to a ...

A critically endangered species has hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo for the second year in a row in “a massive conservation achievement,” zoo officials said in a news release Wednesday. The hatching of ...

WHO: New gharial moms Raani and Snaggle, father Big Boy (the biggest gharial in the U.S.), and the ectotherm keeper team at the Fort Worth Zoo. WHAT: The zoo is now the first in the nation to breed ...

The Fort Worth Zoo announced the "groundbreaking births" Thursday of "a historic conservation success" -- the hatching of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. Of the 35 gharial crocodiles ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating historic conservation success with the third annual hatchings of the gharial crocodile. The two new gharials hatched on June 5 and June 11. The back-to-back-to-back ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Zoo Wednesday announced the first-ever repeated breeding success of critically endangered gharial crocodiles with two new hatchlings this summer. The hatchlings this ...

The Fort Worth Zoo announced Thursday a remarkably rare birth of four gharial crocodiles, a critically endangered species that the zoo has tried to breed for more than a decade. This is only the ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is leading the charge in saving a critically endangered reptile. The zoo has successfully hatched two new gharial crocodiles. Even more important, the crocodiles have different ...

The population of critically endangered gharials in Chitwan National Park, Nepal’s stronghold for these crocodiles, increased by around 11% as of the start of 2024, totaling 265 individuals compared ...

Marcos Avalos, ectotherm zookeeper, holds one of the four newly arrived gharial hatchlings outside of the Museum of Living Art at the Fort Worth Zoo on Thursday. Desiree Rios / Special Contributor ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating another conservation success with the hatching of critically endangered gharial crocodiles for the third year in a row. Zac Foster, supervisor of ectotherms, stands ...

DEHRADUN: Despite significant existential threats, a comprehensive survey across the Ganga river basin has revealed a population of 3,037 gharials (Gavialis gangeticus), the critically endangered fish ...