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 in front of the gharial exhibit Wednesday morning. The two tiny crocodiles he’s holding came from eggs laid by the same mother. They are about a month old and just over a foot long, their pointed snouts filled with dozens of small, interlocking teeth.
The pair are the seventh and eighth gharials to be hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo — to date the only institution in North America to have successfully bred this critically endangered reptile for multiple consecutive years…