“The Texas horned lizard is an animal that I remember playing with every summer as a kid. It’s just kind of a unique, cute, iconic Texas species,” said Killian, who also works full-time as a wildlife ...

The horned lizard, with its mottled skin and horns ... via Wikimedia Commons The slow loris looks cute, but it’s got a sneaky defense. This little guy has poison glands on its arms, which it rubs on ...

Unlike their herbivorous millipede relatives, centipedes are carnivorous predators capable of subduing prey substantially larger than themselves, including small vertebrates like lizards ... while ...

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 ...

The island is noted for being one of the locations where Texas horned lizards, also called horned toads or horned frogs, have been introduced and now thrive. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Although the name is horned frog, the species' real is name is "Texas horned lizard" because it has spikes. But in Texas, the animal is known as a horned frog. The school earned the name when the ...

"However, any animal will defend itself." The invasion started in 1928 with the horned lizard, according to state wildlife records. Many were introduced to the wild's of Florida through the pet trade.

For more than 70 years, thousands of common wall lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, have scurried across sidewalks and lurked in your garden. They're all over Cincinnati, but the reptiles aren't ...