It's a greater/mountain short-horned lizard, Phrynosoma hernandesi. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
It is sometimes called the horned screamer, from its loud and wild cry. From Wordnik.com. [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference
Viking warrior in horned helmet with sword and shield advances from dragon ship, NORSE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL, 1825 – 1925. From Wordnik.com. [Unusual Items : 1925 Norse American Medal in Gold : Coin Collecting News] Reference
In its adult form, it is known as the horned corydalus. From Wordnik.com. [The Insect Folk] Reference
The stumpy little lizard known as the horned frog is harmless. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
He is a little live lizard, called a horned frog, very cunning, who lives in a small box. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Children]
Was a four - to five-ton plant-eater belonging to a group called horned dinosaurs, or ceratopsids. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Frankly, that one goddess does not looked "horned" to me at all - the ancients certainly knew how to depict horns, Don. From Wordnik.com. [Disagreement Behind the Scenes] Reference
One, these kids are way too self-aware to be the kind of horned up, late teen crowd that I, and many of my cohorts, was back in the day. From Wordnik.com. [This Week In Trailers: Future X-Cops, The Myth of the American Sleepover, Shelter, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, No One Knows About Persian Cats | /Film] Reference
This moneth he's hous'd in horned Capricorn. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
TerenceC: My wife and I get "horned" by the tax system no matter what. From Wordnik.com. [Donklephant] Reference
It was buried with both the elite and non-elite and painted with complex, geometric motifs and animals, such as horned serpents. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The belief in the existence of a one-horned quadruped is very ancient. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
These injuries are caused by the young or larvae of long-horned beetles. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Have they all been shoe-horned into sinecures at the Department of Energy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizens Of Bimboland] Reference
The great horned owl and the barred owl only were singled out for punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
He brought a horned toad home once, and that didn't last too long, I'm afraid. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Project] Reference
Not for untold gold would she again have faced those horned beasts behind her. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The dog ends up in a horned pack of bas-relief dogs scurrying about incircles. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling the Dog's Head] Reference
Reishi was a dragon in green armor accented with gold, his helmet horned and fierce. From Wordnik.com. [The Insult of Warlord Reishi] Reference
Our future depends on the way we choose to manage this two-horned specter of fear and anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Shades Of Gloom] Reference
I no longer went out; the world seemed peopled with monsters, with horned deer and crocodiles. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This was the era of crested lambeosaurs and the extravagantly horned and frilled styracosaurus. From Wordnik.com. [New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur] Reference
And Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned, were afraid to come near. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Not a vestige of life, not even the horned-toad or the trail of the kangaroo-rat is to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Lizards, "horned toads," and chameleons may be cut underneath and filled out with sand or plaster. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
He was short, blond, blubbered out, and clowned out in top-to-toe tie-dye, with thick horned-rim glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Mescaline Blues] Reference
LICHTMAN: But the story is how these crows use sticks to pull out these juicy, long-horned beetle larvae. From Wordnik.com. [Why Are These Crows So Good With Tools?] Reference
The cells were dark, squalid and infested with horned asps, scorpions and rats, which they killed with clubs. From Wordnik.com. [Books: The Ultimate Survivor] Reference
Then we sort of locked shoulders and bumped each other back and forth, leaning on each other like horned sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Race Wars] Reference
The Kosmoceratops and the larger-bodied five-horned Utahceratops were named in the scientific journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday. From Wordnik.com. [Kosmoceratops, Utahceratops: Horniest Dinosaur Species Ever Discovered In Utah, Closely Related To Triceratops] Reference
The Pentagon has increasingly horned in on the CIA's territory, using Special Forces to run covert operations and gather intel. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligence: Goss Goes Out--But the CIA's Struggles Go On] Reference
In Mongolia, for instance, nests of little one-horned Protoceratops were filled with eggs whose volume exceeded that of an entire adult. From Wordnik.com. [New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur] Reference
The plant-eating dinosaurs are closely related to the three-horned triceratops, but one of them has five times as many horns on its head. From Wordnik.com. [Kosmoceratops, Utahceratops: Horniest Dinosaur Species Ever Discovered In Utah, Closely Related To Triceratops] Reference
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