What Animals and Plants Live in Texas
What Animals and Plants Live in Texas The nine-banded armadillo is a common sight across Texas. (Photo: Tom Brakefield/Stockbyte/Getty Images ) Texas is the largest contiguous state of the union and figures equally large in the pop imagination. Animals and plants native to the state span marine mammals off the Gulf of Mexico declension to tortoises that live in the deserts westward of El Paso, from eagles soaring over the Texas Panhandle to agaves that cling to life in the parched desert around the valley of the Rio Grande. Of all these flora and fauna, information technology is vital to exist able to recognize the endangered and threatened species and important to know those that are emblematic of the Lone Star Country. Endangered and Threatened Species The Texas Depa