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A look at the perentie, Australia's largest monitor lizard, and the thermoregulation, habitat use, and predator pressures that shape its elusive life in the rocky outback.

Tiny mammals can be harder to picture than giant ones. A blue whale sounds huge right away, but a mammal that weighs less ...

Australia does not simply have a large number of lizards. In many regions, they dominate the landscape almost quietly, moving through scrub, rocks, and dry grass in numbers that become obvious only ...

For 320 million years, a hidden story has been written in the skin of reptiles. Scientists have now decoded it, and what they ...

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

An Australian farmer discovered a live frog hidden inside a supermarket lettuce while preparing food at home. The amphibian ...

Rather than dreaming of restoring past glory, some are advocating for a future with a lighter footprint. And there are signs of renewal ...

More than a third of visitors to French Polynesia arrive by cruise, but Mo'orea rewards travellers who slow down and explore ...

Australia’s waterways are not always as empty as they appear from the shore. In many parts of the country, rivers, ...

A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed ...