Next time you hear hooting and it sounds like “Who’s coming for dinner,” take a look in your garden or backyard to determine ...

Scientists have found that horned animals like muskox or bighorn sheep that head-butt each other do not escape unharmed and can end up with concussion and other serious head traumas.

From towering mountain ranges to wide-open savannas, the animal kingdom is home to some of the most extraordinary horned ...

Horned lizards are distinguished by a crown of large, formidable looking bony spines on the back of the head. ... No doubt the head spines deter predation by certain snakes, birds and small mammals.

Rodents. “These things are like popcorn in the environment,” Williams said. Horned lizards have been tracked for more than 17 years at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City.

MARION - Dr. Jonathan Calede has uncovered a now extinct new species of rodent with horns that lived in Nebraska during the Miocene epoch. “The new species is part of a genus called Ceratogaulus.

On a humid night in the mountains of southern China, a “slender”-limbed creature with “burly” fingers emerged from its hiding ...

The great horned owl is the most common owl of the Americas, easily recognizable because of the feather tufts on its head. These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears.

South American horned frogs (Ceratophrys) can capture and swallow whole animals up to their own body size, including other frogs, lizards, snakes and rodents.This is possible because they have ...

SCBI used their own captive population of scimitar-horned oryx to test the satellite collars that the released animals in Chad will wear, “to make sure that they didn't change feeding patterns ...

Horned screamers can be found from Colombia and Ecuador down to south-central Brazil. Like their close cousins, ducks, geese, and swans, these birds prefer wet habitats, such as freshwater lagoons ...