Fort Worth Zoo horned lizard program prepares for largest release to date

Inside a greenhouse-like structure at the edge of the Fort Worth Zoo is a nursery for hundreds of horned lizards.

“They’re very charismatic,” Fort Worth Zoo Assistant Director of Ectotherms Robyn Doege said. “I mean, they have that cute face… for a reptile.”

For two decades, the Fort Worth Zoo, along with other zoo partners, TCU, and Texas Parks and Wildlife, has been working on a conservation program to bring back the threatened population of horned lizards…

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