A Texas Horned Lizard in the herpetarium Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, in the Dallas Zoo.

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 ...

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.

Bloodstained short-horned lizard captured earlier this week. Alberta naturalist Chris Fisher says lizard researchers who have seen over 500 of this species across Alberta and Saskatchewan have ...

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.

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 ...

Horned lizards are covered with coarse scales and lay their eggs on dry land. Amphibians have no scales and must lay their eggs in water or at least very moist surroundings.

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.

More Texas horned lizards are now scuttling around Blanco County, thanks to the San Antonio Zoo—and a team of dogs that are trained to track the threatened species.

Technically, the species' real name is "Texas horned lizard." Frogs, as a species, rely on water -- so they have smooth skin. Lizards, meanwhile, have scales.