Reptiles

Analysis and Comment (2)

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The Retro Slider – the best-named reptile in Australia? Eric Vanderduys

Australian endangered species: Retro Slider

When asked to name an Australian lizard, most Australians would probably pick the familiar blue-tongue, stumpy lizard or bearded dragon, or perhaps the iconic thorny devil, frill-neck lizard or a goanna…
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It’s a relief to lizards and scientists that new hands-off methods are making their way into herpetology. Kaptain Kobold/Flickr

New gadgets are opening windows on reptiles

You have probably heard someone utter the cliché “I grew up in a different era”. Compared to today, my youth was technologically anorexic. It was a time where you would never be told “Please turn off your…

Research Briefs (9)

Bigger doesn’t always mean faster

Larger animals with longer legs aren’t always the fastest when sprinting, but then neither are smaller animals. Researchers…

Forget horsepower, try alligators

Alligator fat could be a key component in future biofuel production due to its high lipid content. The alligator meat processing…

Lizards not so dumb after all

Puerto Rican anoles have challenged the scientific stereotype that reptiles have limited cognitive abilities, passing a test…