FORT WORTH (CBSNewsTexas.com) — The horned lizard is a Texas icon. Around the Fort Worth area, this is largely due to it being the mascot for Texas Christian University, even though the name of the ...

EU-funded LINABIOFLUID researchers used electron microscopes to study desert-dwelling horned lizards, which survive in arid conditions by collecting dew through their skin, and flat bark bugs, which ...

A Texas zoo has released 28 horned lizards back into the wild. This lizard, shown in the video burrowing into the sand, along ...

We desert dwellers enjoy a huge diversity of native reptiles, especially in our open spaces, with an intriguing array of lizards present during the warm seasons. Some of them move lightning-fast, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the latest chapter in a 16-year legal battle to keep the flat-tailed ...

This story originally ran on TexasHighways.com. Once upon a time, you could find Texas horned lizards across much of the state: squat reptiles the color of rusty red and gray gravel, heads crowned ...

The San Antonio Zoo did, and a group of the distinguished critters recently hatched. The Texas horned lizard, aka the "horny toad" or "horned frog," is a lizard native to the south-central United ...

Two zoos are making notable strides this year in the recovery of the Texas horned lizard, the rare and threatened lizard cherished as the official state reptile of Texas. Caldwell Zoo in Tyler and ...

Everyone loves a “horny toad!” Finding one practically beneath your feet on a trail feels very special; and the way that they don’t (can’t!) zip away in a flash makes it easy to study them for as long ...

AQUARIUM IS SHOWING OFF TWO MORE NEW BABIES. THIS NEW ONE IS CERTAINLY DISTINCTIVE. TAKE A LOOK. THESE ARE NEWLY HATCHED MEXICAN GIANT HORNED LIZARDS PERCHED ATOP MAMMAL LIZARD, WE THINK THE ZOO IS ...