Dragons are typically the stuff of legends and folklore. In Australia, this is not the case. The country was once a hotspot ...

Fossils and DNA reveal how climate change is shrinking the habitat of an Australian lizard and threatening its future ...

Climate change is driving many of Australia's native reptiles toward extinction, and the answers to their future survival may lie in the fossil record. New research published today in Current Biology ...

Melbourne zoo’s new breeding centre hopes to safeguard the future of the critically endangered Victorian grassland earless dragon ...

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hotter temperatures are messing with the gender of Australia’s bearded dragon lizards, a new study finds. Dragons that are genetically male hatch as females and give birth to other ...

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 ...

Meet Cenophorus tjakalpa, kartiwarrui, ibiri, and tuniluki. These newly-discovered species of sand dragon lizard have been named with the help of Traditional Owners of the Country where they were ...

(Witnessing bearded dragon lizard in Australian outback caught on camera) [NEW VIDEO - Variant A] ...

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