The enormous lizard raises its head ... transported back tens of thousands of years to a time when giant beasts ruled the ...

WA police have copped backlash online after sharing footage of officers removing a large lizard from the front yard of a home ...

An Australian-based criminal syndicate plotted ... after intercepting nine packages bound for Hong Kong with 59 live lizards stashed inside. They allegedly discovered more than 250 lizards after ...

An obscure lizard reveals how zoos may indirectly play a role in animal trafficking An obscure lizard reveals how zoos may indirectly play a role in animal trafficking Australia’s Giant ...

Paleontologists have revealed a giant new species of prehistoric "worm lizard" with a powerful bite that is the largest of its kind found to date. The newly identified creature, named ...

The last of the large, flightless mihirungs, or thunderbirds, native to Australia, they roamed the outback at the same time as other giant creatures, including lizards and kangaroos, and when the ...

A new species of lizard has been discovered in mountains and ranges in the Central Australian desert. The Liopholis aputja is deeply genetically divergent from its most closely related lizard ...

More information: Georgios L Georgalis et al, The world's largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi ...