Predating the Amazon, Australia's Daintree Rainforest is a 135-million-year-old marvel. Discover the ancient biodiversity ...

While skin bone plates are well studied in crocodylians (shown here in a gharial, in purple), their presence in lizards and ...

There are many unique animals and reptiles in Australia, including snakes. Many of them reside in remote forests and deserts, ...

SYDNEY — Four people have been charged over an alleged plot to smuggle hundreds of Australian native reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong. Police released 257 reptiles, mostly lizards, that had been ...

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, ...

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

Internationally acclaimed British palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax has arrived in Queensland to headline the state’s inaugural ...

Police in South Africa have managed to recover human remains after an officer was lowered from a helicopter into a ...

Australia is known for its rare and interesting critters. Some can be frightening and venomous, while others are intimidating but innocuous. Australia’s isolation from other landmasses ensures that ...

An endangered reptile which had gone unnoticed for decades is one of the rarest reptiles in all of Australia. According to recent discoveries by scientists and conservationists, the Kungaka Skink, ...