What is a horned screamer? Horned screamers are the unicorns of the bird world. Over the course of their lives, these birds grow long, white spines of cartilage in the middle of their foreheads.

This came to mind the other day while photographing a mother great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) and young owlet. What’s so unusual about that, you ask? If you check any of your bird books or do ...

On a mountain of southern China, a “horned” creature hid under the shrubbery ... Seen from underneath, the toad has a pale stomach and pink thighs. A few white markings dot the underside ...

These “plumicorns” resemble horns or, to some, catlike ears. Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America. They are at home in suburbia as well as in woods ...