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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The official reptile is the horned lizard (affectionately ... THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE TEXAS VANITY PLATE: Coincidence, cowboy ...

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 ...