Northern desert horned lizard Northern desert horned lizard The northern desert horned lizard ("Phrynosoma platyrhinos platyrhinos") is a subspecies of the desert horned lizard, along with the southern desert horned lizard ("P. p. calidiarum"). It is often referred to as a "horny toad" due to its wide body and blunt snout, but it is not a toad. It ranges in size between from snout to cloaca, and can get to long including the tail. Like all horned lizards, it features horns on the back of its head and sharp scales on its back. Its color typically varies depending on the local environment, ranging from
Horned Serpent of a Lindorm in Northern Europe, especially in Southern Scandinavia, and most of all as described in folklore in Eastern Denmark (including the provinces lost to Sweden in 1658). There, too, it is a water creature of huge dimensions, while in Southern Sweden it is a huge snake, the sight of which was deadly. This latter characteristic is reminiscent of the basilisk. In Mesopotamian mythology Ningishzida, is sometimes depicted as a serpent with horns. In other depictions, he is shown as human but is accompanied by "bashmu", horned serpents. Ningishzida shares the epithet "ushumgal", "great serpent", with several other Mesopotamian