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The Texas horned lizard is the largest-bodied and most widely distributed of the roughly 21 species of horned lizards in the western United States and Mexico. The Texas horned lizard exhibits sexual dimorphism, with the females being larger with a snout-vent length of around 5 in (13 cm), whereas the males reach around 3.7 in (9.4 cm).
The Texas Horned Lizard is the official state reptile of Texas. Synonymous with "horny toad," the Texas horned lizard is a spiky reptile famous for its ability to shoot blood from its eyes as a ...
Texas designated the Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) as the official state reptile in 1993. [12] Wyoming’s state reptile is the “Horn Toad”, the greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi). [13] [14] The "TCU Horned Frog" is the mascot of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The "Horned Toad" is also the ...
English: Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum), Armstrong County, Texas, USA. This lizard was photographed in the field on the natural soil where it was found, on 28 April 2013by William L. Farr This lizard was photographed in the field on the natural soil where it was found, on 28 April 2013by William L. Farr
Since August 2021, Caldwell Zoo’s Texas Horned Lizard Conservation Center has successfully hatched hundreds of baby horny toads, including more than 70 this year alone, according to a recent ...
The Texas Hill Country just got 617 new lizards, courtesy of the Fort Worth Zoo and its conservation partners.
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
Ol' Rip in his coffin in Eastland County Courthouse. Ol' Rip the Horned Toad (died January 19, 1929) was a Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum), commonly referred to as a "horned toad" or "horny toad", which supposedly survived a 31-year hibernation as an entombed animal following its exhumation from a cornerstone in Eastland, Texas, on February 18, 1928.