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 ...

The reasons why our state reptile—and beloved playmate for generations of young Texans—is so hard to find these days. A: The Texanist grew up in Central Texas, and he too had no problem finding horny ...

TEXAS, USA — The Texas Horned Lizard is a familiar creature across the state, but not too many are left in the wild. The declared state reptile is now a protected species across most of Texas as their ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Antonio Zoo celebrates hatchings of Texas horned lizards (San Antonio Zoo) SAN ANTONIO – The Texas Horned Lizard Reintroduction Project at the San Antonio Zoo has a lot to be excited about with ...

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 ...

The state’s official reptile may be on the rebound, thanks to nature lovers from around the state. We’ll call that a win. The Texas horned lizard, affectionately called the horny toad, may be iconic, ...

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 ...

For the most part, reptiles here in Texas are not anything more than an afterthought at best, and reviled at worst. However, there is an endearing reptile that can make even the most staunch ...

Misshapen and frayed as a badly done potato pancake, the old horned toad that lugubriously blinked in the Eastland, Tex., drugstore window last week proved all the lies that Texans had ever told of ...