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  2. It's World Animal Day! These iconic species are the official ...

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    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 ...

  3. Texas horned lizard - Wikipedia

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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).

  4. Horned lizard - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of U.S. state reptiles - Wikipedia

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    Texas honored the Texas horned lizard in 1993, but private Texas Christian University has had the associated mascot the Horned Frog since 1896. According to legend, the football team identified with the lizards found on the practice field as the athletes and reptiles were similarly scrappy.

  6. The Goriest Defense Mechanism of Any Animal - AOL

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    Horned lizards mostly hunt out in the open, licking up ants and other insects with their sticky tongues. However, this also makes the lizards easy targets for predators like roadrunners, coyotes ...

  7. Caldwell Zoo hatches over 70 horned lizards, Dallas Zoo sees ...

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    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 ...

  8. Desert horned lizard - Wikipedia

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    The flat-tailed horned lizard occurs in areas of fine sand, while the short-horned lizard (P. douglasii) is found in shortgrass prairie all the way up into spruce-fir forest. The most common species in the Arizona Upland subdivision is the regal horned lizard ( P. solare ), which frequents rocky or gravelly habitats of arid to semiarid plains ...

  9. The Fort Worth Zoo just released a record number of this ...

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    The Texas Hill Country just got 617 new lizards, courtesy of the Fort Worth Zoo and its conservation partners.