Also known as horny toads, Texas horned lizards have been classified as a threatened species in Texas since 1977. The decline ...

If you’ve lived in Texas for a while, you may have run across a tiny lizard with an identity crisis. Most folks call them horned toads, but they are, indeed, horned lizards. A Texas legend has ...

Since August 2021, Caldwell Zoo’s Texas Horned Lizard Conservation Center has successfully hatched hundreds of baby horny toads, including more than 70 this year alone, according to a recent ...

Kade has kept a nature journal for most of his life. But he really became devoted to nature after he moved to a house with a big field behind it, where he first saw a Texas horned lizard (also called ...

The Texas horned lizard has the most shocking defence mechanism to fend off predators; it shoots blood from the corners of its eyes by rupturing its own sinus membranes. The Iberian ribbed newt ...

This prompted the researchers to examine the skin and scales of the lizards in detail, using high-powered microscopes. They found that two species, Australian thorny devils and the Texas horned ...

The short-horned lizard is often referred to as a “horned toad” or “horny toad” because its squat, flattened shape and short, blunt snout give it a toad-ish look. There are over a dozen ...

TCU (10-9, 3-5) will make a quick trip west to Lubbock to take on an in-state rival in Texas Tech (15-4, 6-2) on Wednesday night. The Horned Frogs, in desperate need of a win, have fallen in each ...

THE craziest things get swirled together in El Paso, Texas – horned lizards and chihuahuas, baseball diamonds and city offices, tiny shops selling pants designed to “lift your butt” and ...

Base color is tan, orange-brown, or reddish brown and typically matches the sand on which the lizard lives; the back is marked with rows of dark, circular blotches. HABITAT: The flat-tailed horned ...