Some animal adaptations look like they were designed by a committee of mad scientists. The greater short-horned lizard ...

KENEDY, Texas — "We couldn't wait to get home, change our clothes and go play with the Horned Toads," says Lisa Yaklin. She grew up in Kenedy, Texas... now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of ...

These horned lizards turn their lunch into a loaded weapon - then fire the leftovers straight from its own eyeballs.

AUSTIN, Texas — 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 ...

TYLER, Texas (KETK) — Caldwell Zoo’s Texas Horned Lizard Conservation Center has successfully hatched a group of over 20 horned lizards, which will be released into a protected habitat to help ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the arid plains and rocky deserts of North America, a ...

When my grandson Parker was 11 years old, he called me from a coastal island with exciting news. Problem was I took the call outside a restaurant with people jabbering and at a spot where I had a ...

STAMFORD — There’s probably not much chance that if you grew up in Texas and are of a certain age that you didn’t catch and keep a horned lizard as a pet. Of course, you called it a horny toad because ...