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 ...

The guthega skink only lives at high elevations and spends months hibernating under the snow ...

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 ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by ...

Eleven guthega skinks could soon become 13 thanks to a captive breeding program in the Alpine national park ...

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 ...

An elderly man and woman were hospitalized and their dog seriously injured in Australia after a predatory lizard attacked them Thursday in what rescuers called a "horrific and freak ordeal," local ...

Some of Australia's most famous animals - wombat, platypus, kangaroos and the extinct marsupial tiger thylacine - have been traced back to their fossil ancestors in remarkable finds in central South ...

We'd like to welcome this curious armless burrowing lizard into the New Species Hall of Fame. Despite being built for life underground, in the end this slider skink was no match for scientists who had ...