When a female horned lizard lays her eggs, she finds herself up against several predators that want to devour them. Fortunately, the female horned lizard doesn’t back down very easily, and when she ...

The zoo has paired sets of horned lizards to encourage breeding, then carefully hatch the eggs. She says the lizards lost a lot of habitat in the last few decades.

The Horned Lizard Reintroduction Project is funded, totally through donations. It costs a little more than $100,000 per year. Much of that money goes to providing food for the adult and baby ...

In July, the zoo shared the exciting news that their Texas horned lizards had laid eggs, writing on Facebook that they had partnered with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and launched a ...

Texas Horned Lizard eggs are lined in an incubator at the Caldwell Zoo. The zoo is making efforts through its conservation program to help rebuild the declining population.

The horned lizard’s first eggs were laid at the end of June, and the first hatching occurred on Aug. 9 at Zoo Miami, Magill confirmed Tuesday. He said seven more hatchlings have since emerged ...

Lizards, meanwhile, have scales. And, in the case of the horned lizards, they've got spikes! "Texans always call them horny toads or horned frogs," Barber said.

Since the project began in 2017, 157 Texas horned lizards have been released into the wild. CCR has also partnered with Chiron K to create the Texas Horned Lizard Detection Canine Network, which ...

They grow to 3.5 to 6 inches. A Texas horned lizard hatchling rests in a plastic container after being tagged on Sept. 15, 2021, at the Fort Worth Zoo.

FORT WORTH - Once common, the Texas horned lizard is now one of more than 1,300 species of concern across the state. But there is good news for the little "horned toad." On Thursday, a coalition ...

Ron Magill / Zoo Miami Horned lizards – which are sometimes referred to as “horned frogs” – are the official state lizard of Texas, where they are threatened and protected by the law.