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Gump has lived a cossetted life, nurtured in a cage on Christmas Island. Until last year, she had two acquaintances, but misadventure claimed them both. Now there is only Gump. She’s the last known individual…
You may not have heard of the Gulbaru Gecko but you’d love it if you met it. Ancient and spectacular, this endangered gecko has one of the smallest distributions of any Australian animal. Australia is…
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…
Almost one-fifth of the world’s reptiles are currently threatened with extinction. A recent study assessed 1500 species for…
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…
Female Komodo dragons pay a high price for investing a lot of energy into reproduction - they only live about half the average…
Larger animals with longer legs aren’t always the fastest when sprinting, but then neither are smaller animals. Researchers…
Ancient land-crawling animals may have used the complex bone structures in their skin to process carbon dioxide, deterring…
Scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpenteria, northern Australia, which is unique in…
Tests on one type of lizard species have suggested warmer nests could make some reptiles smarter. When researchers incubated…
The Komodo Dragon has an astoundingly weak bite, new research has found. The largest lizards in the world, which have been…
Alligator fat could be a key component in future biofuel production due to its high lipid content. The alligator meat processing…
Puerto Rican anoles have challenged the scientific stereotype that reptiles have limited cognitive abilities, passing a test…
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