We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,980,791-part monthly series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Ol’ Rip The Horned Toad What it’s about: The most famous lizard in American history. In ...

Misshapen and frayed as a badly done potato pancake, the old horned toad that lugubriously blinked in the Eastland, Tex., drugstore window last week proved all the lies that Texans had ever told of ...

In this year leading up to Arizona's centennial, Feb. 14, 2012, we'll reprint a story or excerpts each day from the Arizona Daily Star or Tucson Citizen archives. June 17, 1912 PHOENIX - Have you ...

California high school sports fans have spoken, choosing the Coalinga Horned Toads as the best mascot in the state. Coalinga (population 17,465) won the contest with 72,114 votes, while Hollister ...

Scientists found a “horned” creature with “diamond-shaped” pupils in a nature reserve in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Zhong-Bin Yu via Wu, Zuo, Yang, Zhang, Duan, ...

As night stretched across a nature reserve in southern China, a “horned” creature with “long” limbs climbed onto a plant near a stream. Its “diamond-shaped” pupils scanned the surrounding forest, but ...

Scientists found a creature with “burly” fingers in the mountains of a nature reserve in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Liu, Li, Cheng, Wei, Wang and Cheng (2025) On a ...