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The coast horned lizard appears rough and spiky but is actually smooth-skinned, although it has sharp spikes along its sides, back and head. It is a large species, and can reach 10 cm (4 inches) excluding the tail. It is less rounded than other horned lizards.
Coast horned lizard (P. coronatum), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA (June 14, 2008) Coast horned lizard ( P. coronatum ) (25 April 2009) Greater short-horned lizard ( P. douglassi brevirostre ), Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA (15 June 2016).
Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) Coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum) Pygmy short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma douglasii) Greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) Roundtail horned lizard (Phrynosoma modestum) Mexican Plateau horned lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) Desert horned lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos)
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 ...
The San Diego horned lizard or Blainville's horned lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard native to southern and central California in the United States and northern Baja California in Mexico.
The zoo started its horned lizard conservation project in 2011 as a way to fight against the extinction of the animal. The zoo’s techniques with breeding and husbandry have caught on with other ...
The Phrynosomatidae are a diverse family of lizards, sometimes classified as a subfamily (Phrynosomatinae), found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada.Many members of the group are adapted to life in hot, sandy deserts, although the spiny lizards prefer rocky deserts or even relatively moist forest edges, and the short-horned lizard lives in prairie or sagebrush environments.
Also referred to as the horned toad, horny toad and horned frog, the Texas horned lizard has lineage that traces back to dinosaurs. The tiny three-inch-long species joined the threatened list in ...