AUSTIN, Texas — If you’ve lived in Texas for a while, you may have run across a tiny lizard with an identity crisis. Most folks call them horned toads, but they are, indeed, horned lizards. A Texas ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We are thrilled about the progress we've made with the Texas Horned Lizard Reintroduction Project," said Tim Morrow, president and CEO of the San Antonio Zoo, in a press release. "The hatching of 27 ...

Once rampant throughout the state, the Texas horned lizard—lovingly nicknamed the horny toad—has become a rare sight with its numbers drastically diminished in areas across Texas. It is currently ...

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 ...

MIAMI — For the first time, Zoo Miami has successfully hatched threatened Texas horned lizards as part of a conservation effort to boost their wild populations, zoo spokesman Ron Magill confirmed ...

KENEDY, Texas — "We couldn't wait to get home, change our clothes and go play with the Horned Toads," says Lisa Yaklin. She grew up in Kenedy, Texas... now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of ...

For its 25th anniversary of the conservation plate program, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is looking to make changes to its horned lizard license plate, and it is asking Texans to help.