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Topographic map of Texas. This is a list of mammals of Texas. Mammals native to or immediately off the coast of the U.S. state of Texas are listed first. Introduced mammals, whether intentional or unintentional, are listed separately. The varying geography of Texas, the second largest state, provides a large variety of habitats for mammals.
The central forest-grasslands transition lies to the north and northwest, and the Edwards Plateau savanna and the Tamaulipan mezquital lie to the southwest. The larger of the two islands is the Fayette Prairie , encompassing 17,000 km 2 (6,600 sq mi), and the smaller is the San Antonio Prairie , with an area of 7,000 km 2 (2,700 sq mi).
The Central Great Plains are a prairie ecoregion of the central United States, part of North American Great Plains. The region runs from west-central Texas through west-central Oklahoma, central Kansas, and south-central Nebraska. It is designated as the Central and Southern Mixed Grasslands ecoregion by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
The Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma are a group of Early Permian-age geologic strata in the southwestern United States cropping out in north-central Texas and south-central Oklahoma. They comprise several stratigraphic groups , including the Clear Fork Group , the Wichita Group , and the Pease River Group . [ 1 ]
Both the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease and Control have categorized Texas as West South Central ... Animals. Business. ... Panhandle and South Plains: Great Plains. North Texas: South.
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
An intense blast of cold air shattered records in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average. ... North Dakota, plunged to 39 degrees below zero Tuesday ...