Biggest controversy: Horned toads were nearly casualties of Ol ... with a live, top-hat-wearing frog inside. The gag is that, when no one’s around, the frog loudly belts out Tin Pan Alley ...

At such a legend scientists scoff. A horned toad is not a toad, nor a frog. It is a lizard, a reptile, which through the ages has developed a broad, squat, warty body. It looks like a batrachian ...

No wonder some people call them horned toads or horned frogs. The scientific name of the Texas horned lizard is Phrynosoma cornutum. The first word means "with a body like a toad." The second one ...

Of course, you called it a horny toad because that’s what everybody thought they were. TCU improperly named its sports teams the “Horned Frogs,” and after 100 hundred years or so ...

WHY IT’S SO GREAT: The Texas horned lizard, affectionately called the horny toad or horned frog, is in trouble. The population of the official Texas state reptile has steeply declined in the ...

now designated as the 'Horned Toad Capital of the World ... who's mascot is the Horned Frog. So the effort to ensure this iconic piece of Texas will always be here, is indeed thriving.