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

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.

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

Why they're awesome: Greater short-horned lizards have a squat, flat shape and short snouts, which makes them look more like amphibians than reptiles — hence the nickname "horny toads." ...

Its parents will feed the owlet a protein-rich diet of rabbits, mice, various other rodents and even skunk. Great horned owls are one of the few predators of the malodorous mammals, and the owl ...

Great horned owls are known to consume a "very wide variety of prey including some animals, such as skunks, that are larger than itself" but ordinarily consume rabbits, mice and other small ...