The San Antonio Zoo is celebrating a "major milestone" in regard to its conservation efforts, as lizards released into the ...

About 100 miles west of Austin in Mason County, there are some new arrivals: baby horned lizards, known to generations of ...

A reptile researcher explains why diverse native vegetation, healthy soils and insect-rich food webs are essential for horned ...

Some animal adaptations look like they were designed by a committee of mad scientists. The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi)—Wyoming’s state reptile, also dubbed the “horny toad” ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) - Giant Horned Lizard or Horny toad as they are often called is a species of lizard that can be found in central America. Their habitat ranges from Mexico to Guatemala. They have ...

When it comes to creative survival tactics in the animal kingdom, few creatures can compete with a small, spiky reptile that weaponizes its own blood. The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma ...

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 ...

Thousands of baby Texas horned toads have been released in Mason County as part of efforts to restore the threatened species.

It took the San Francisco earthquake to destroy a rather creative San Bernardino County industry briefly flourishing in Needles in 1906. Two enterprising men were making good money capturing ...