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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Cornett is in the Great Australian Desert. He shares his many Australian Desert experiences in this second of a four-part series. If you love lizards you will love Australia. With a ...

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 ...

Giant carnivorous lizards shared turf with the earliest human settlers in Australia, according to a new study. Research led by the University of Queensland has dated a 1-centimeter lizard bone to be ...

Life was tough enough for Australia's first human inhabitants during the last ice age, but they had the added danger of having to survive alongside giant killer lizards, researchers say. A fossil ...

Previous studies have suggested that tropical and temperate-zone lizards may differ fundamentally in life histories. We tested the applicability of this idea to Australian species by comparing ...