Texas horned lizards possess a remarkable defense. They can shoot blood from their eyes, deterring predators. This ...

Some animal adaptations look like they were designed by a committee of mad scientists. The greater short-horned lizard ...

Greater short-horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes - proving you really are what you eat, in the grossest way possible.

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These horned lizards turn their lunch into a loaded weapon - then fire the leftovers straight from its own eyeballs.

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — If you’ve lived in Texas for a while, you may have run across a tiny lizard with an identity crisis. Most folks call them horned toads, but they are, indeed, horned lizards. A Texas ...

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.