The next time you’re enjoying Montana’s great outdoors, be on the lookout for peculiar creatures with a bizarre defense mechanism — shooting blood out of their eyes. State wildlife officials want to ...

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." But these ...

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The next time you’re enjoying Montana’s great outdoors, be on the lookout for peculiar creatures with a bizarre defense mechanism — shooting blood out of their eyes. State wildlife officials want to ...

Let’s talk horny toads! Turns out they’re not toads at all. They’re not even frogs, they’re lizards. Lizards with big horns and scales all over them. And fun fact, horned toads, or lizards are known ...

Can a turtle tuck its head all the way inside its shell? 240 million-year-old 'warrior' crocodile ancestor from Pangaea had plated armor — and it looked just like a dinosaur What's the difference ...

These odd critters can shoot blood out of their eyes, and Montana wildlife experts need your help finding them. Photo by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Nicole Hussey The next time you’re ...