Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the arid plains and rocky deserts of North America, a ...

Imagine being a predator looking for an easy meal. You spot a small lizard basking on a rock and move in for the attack. At ...

(WGHP) — Meet the Texas horned lizard. Despite “Texas” being in their name, they have been found in North Carolina. These lizards are most active in very hot climates and can squirt blood out of their ...

The post Texas Horned Lizards Were Vanishing, Now They’re Thriving appeared first on A-Z Animals. The Texas horned lizard has been an important part of Texas’s history and culture for centuries. Once ...

When it comes to creative survival tactics in the animal kingdom, few creatures can compete with a small, spiky reptile that weaponizes its own blood. The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma ...

I nearly crushed it beneath my boot. A little over a week ago, I was hiking down the Bogert Trail when something very tiny scampered out from underneath my boot — just in time to avoid being squashed.

Out in the dry scrublands of the American West, a squat, spine-covered reptile spends its days nearly invisible against the sand, dust and stone. The greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi ...

This story originally ran on TexasHighways.com. Once upon a time, you could find Texas horned lizards across much of the state: squat reptiles the color of rusty red and gray gravel, heads crowned ...