Traces of Texas reader Tom Madden was turkey hunting with his friend Todd Scott last weekend near Bronte, Texas, when they came across this big ol' beautiful horned frog, which as any good Texan knows is actually a horny toad. While we all call them horny toads and at TCU they call them horned frogs, they are neither toads nor frogs. The popular names come from the lizard's rounded body and blunt snout, which give it a decidedly frog/toadlike appearance. Phrynosoma literally means "toad-bodied" and cornutum means "horned". The Texas horned lizard's horns are extensions of its cranium and contain true bone. We used to see them all over the place when I was a kid and my beating Texas heart is always glad to see one in the wild. Isn't he gorgeous? When's the last time you saw one out in nature?