When my grandson Parker was 11 years old, he called me from a coastal island with exciting news. Problem was I took the call ...

Wildlife conservationists are working with landowners and concerned Texans to recover at-risk species. Currently, more than 1 ...

For anyone who recently visited the University of Wyoming Berry Biodiversity Institute, they may have noticed that its ambassador animals -- an assortment of amphibians and reptiles -- have new and ...

Presumably, horned lizards from the Southwest were released in areas of the Southeast ecologically similar to their native ...

During Rip’s long hibernation, his mouth had “grown together,” and that “if necessary, the mouth will be opened by an ...

2. Desert horned vipers are excellently camouflaged and hunt their preys such as small lizards by hiding beneath the sand. 3. Nose horned viper: Native to Southern Europe and parts of the Balkans, ...

With their horns and spikes, body plates and tail clubs, these horned and armored dinosaurs have long captured popular imagination. In the early 1900s American paleoartist Charles R. Knight ...

A new study has identified significant differences in the appearance and behavior of the two one-horned Asiatic rhinoceros species, challenging traditional classifications and prompting a ...

Recently hatched juveniles are about three-quarters of an inch in snout-vent length. Texas horned lizards occur in all but the southeast corner of Oklahoma, but typically in open areas. Their North ...

Adult females are slightly smaller, reaching just over four inches in snout to vent length. The distribution of eastern collared lizards in North America extends from northwestern Arizona through ...