The teachers were powerless to stop its antics, so in the morning, during the school holidays when no students were around, ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a rare new lizard species with no front arms and only back limbs, revealing how ...

Fossil evidence suggests that an enormous lizard once dominated prehistoric landscapes, surpassing all modern reptiles in ...

The preservation of fossils of some of the oldest known vertebrates is so impressive that palaeontologists can not only count their eyes, but determine how they worked. The findings demonstrate that ...

Nature expresses itself most vividly through colour, and lizards are among one of its most striking artists. From electric ...

More than 66 million years ago, Mexico was home to numerous species of dinosaurs, some of them as terrifying as T. rex.

These reptiles show a mix of adaptations: water conservation, heat avoidance, burrowing, fat storage, and unique defense ...

And as for what exactly is on the menu? Low-iron pellet foods are best, along with plenty of fruit including bananas, mango, ...

Because their feet are not adapted to process prey items, shrikes carry large items to thorny vegetation and/or barbed wire ...

Tap a small beetle on a table and it may suddenly collapse, tuck in its legs, and lie perfectly still. Many insects do this.

Of all the intriguing insects out there, the Photuris firefly has always been one of my favorites. This “femme fatale” uses ...

Armed with ox bile and household vinegar, researcher Adam Skerritt and a team of 10 divers are busy scoping coral reefs off the Cairns coast to stop an ecological time bomb before it explodes.