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

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

Why they're awesome: Greater short-horned lizards have a squat, flat shape and short snouts, which makes them look more like amphibians than reptiles — hence the nickname "horny toads." But these ...

Horned lizards are part of our Nevadan heritage. Mark Twain mentions them in his book, "The American West," the Western Shoshone noted the presence of horned lizards as spiritually significant, and ...

The next time you’re enjoying Montana’s great outdoors, be on the lookout for peculiar creatures with a bizarre defense mechanism — shooting blood out of their eyes. State wildlife officials want to ...

Of the nearly 50 Texas horned lizards at the San Antonio Zoo lizard factory, a reasonable number of them have names. There’s Poseidon and Pancake, Kermit and Data, Xena and Cowboy. Some of them have ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The legend goes something like this: In 1897, the good people of Eastland, Texas, put a time capsule in the cornerstone of the courthouse being built downtown. In went a Bible, some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many of us know of one or more animals we grew up with that just aren’t around anymore. One of them? The state reptile of Texas – horned lizards … or, as we like to call them, “horny toads.” These ...