Biologists have long treated the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient inheritance, passed down and occasionally ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a rare new lizard species with no front arms and only back limbs, revealing how ...

Published in Conservation Science and Practice, it reveals the most prevalent crimes against Australia’s wildlife and ...

Scientists working in northern Australia have identified a previously unknown species of slider skink in the Gulf of ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

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Australian researchers have discovered that sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosus) can recognize the smell of smoke as a sign of approaching fire and attempt to escape, but they do not respond to the sound ...

Australian police have arrested four people after a criminal group was discovered illegally smuggling more than 200 reptiles worth $808,000 (AU$1.2 million) from the country. The Whyaratta Strike ...

Police in Australia have dismantled what they believe is a smuggling ring that was attempting to export native lizards and reptiles worth more than 1.2 million Australian dollars ($800,000) to Hong ...