Texas sandbar shark recaptured on Padre Island National Seashore houstonchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from houstonchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Move over Shark Week for the Texas Shark Rodeo
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â It s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, but the Texas Shark Rodeo has been going on for several months, and it s not stopping any time soon.
Around 380 anglers, who might normally kill the sharks they catch, are instead snapping photos and then releasing them.
And that s not all.
Some anglers place tags on their sharks and take tissue samples.
It all earns the anglers points towards the competition with an individual and a team earning bragging rights as shark rodeo champions at the end of the year.
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From fluffy to toothy, these are the best wildlife, animal stories on KSAT.com in 2020
Murder hornets, cannibalistic fish, rogue chickens, blue dragons and more
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With a wild year came interesting stories about wildlife. And we do mean interesting.
This year, “murder hornet” became a household name, rogue Texas chickens were found miles away and reunited, and the Padre Island National Seashore was spotlighted for interesting creature finds.
But that’s just the beginning. Here are some of the best wildlife and animal stories we wrote on KSAT.com, from San Antonio to Texas to across the nation: