A Fort Worth Zoo worker holds a gharial crocodile hatchling on Aug. 31. Four gharial crocodiles were born from mid-June to mid-July at the Fort Worth Zoo. Gharial crocs are difficult to breed due to ...

For the third year in a row, the Fort Worth Zoo has achieved the remarkable: growing the population of critically endangered gharial crocodiles! The Fort Worth Zoo has hatched these crocodiles for ...

The Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), whose range extended through the Indian subcontinent is now extinct in Burma and Pakistan, close to extinction in Bangladesh, and is limited to few large rivers in ...

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 ...

Slender-snouted gharials are among the most distinctive of the world’s crocodilians, and thus the most in need of conservation action, a new study suggests. The study authors scored all 28 existing ...

“The Zoo is thrilled to announce this monumental conservation success - the hatchings of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles,” the zoo said in a statement on Facebook. All of the gharials at ...

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 ...