After 1 million Houston toad eggs were released at Bastrop State Park, we look back at efforts to save Texas toads, horned ...

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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” ...

Texas researchers didn’t expect to discover a “milestone” in the revival of the state’s official reptile. Staff members at Mason Mountain Wildlife Management Area in the Hill Country had been ...

Whether you refer to them as horned frogs, horny toads or by their official name — the Texas horned lizard — there's a chance you may know these native reptiles. Your grandkids, however, might not.

BLANCO COUNTY — A crowd of people gathered to watch as the tiny lizards took their first, cautious steps, tentatively testing the sandy soil beneath their feet. The young Texas horned lizards paused ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Zoo has successfully hatched 27 Texas horned lizards this season and expects to hatch even more. The lizards will be released into the wild in the fall as part of the ...