Called the kungaka, meaning "the hidden one", there are thought to be around twenty of the species living in the wild.

Hidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long ...

An endangered reptile which had gone unnoticed for decades is one of the rarest reptiles in all of Australia. According to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Australian major skink (Bellatorias frerei) evolved to resist a specific component of snake neurotoxins. In the case of the ...

Some of Australia's most famous animals - wombat, platypus, kangaroos and the extinct marsupial tiger thylacine - have been traced back to their fossil ancestors in ...

Police in Australia have dismantled what they believe is a smuggling ring that was attempting to export native lizards and reptiles worth more than 1.2 million Australian dollars ($800,000) to Hong ...