Hotter temperatures are being blamed for a strange change in Australia’s bearded dragon lizards, according to a new study — genetic changes that alter the lizards’ sex. The study, published in the ...

A look at the perentie, Australia's largest monitor lizard, and the thermoregulation, habitat use, and predator pressures ...

Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an enormous challenge in the years ahead: avoiding extinction. As recently ...

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Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia's grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinkie when it emerges from its shell, but the little lizard faces an ...

One animal in Australia is so difficult to spot it has been named the hidden dragon lizard. The reptile, which blends perfectly into the reddish orange terrain, avoided documented sightings for years.

Australia does not simply have a large number of lizards. In many regions, they dominate the landscape almost quietly, moving ...

As if life wasn't hard enough during the last Ice Age, a new study has found Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards. Researchers working in Central Queensland ...