Yet a study shows that indigenous Australian hunters create prime habitat for a desert-dwelling lizard. “It’s simply not the case that human activity always has a negative impact on ecological ...

But its exterior is remarkable for another reason too: This lizard drinks with its skin. Australia's deserts are among the driest places on Earth, with rain falling just a couple times a year.

During his trip, Ross got the opportunity to capture some of Australia’s other desert reptiles like this Goldfield’s shingleback skink. Image Credit: Ross McGibbon Next morning we wake with the birds ...

Australia’s deserts are home to a variety of endemic animals too, including reptiles, birds, mammals, frogs, and insects. Because of the sheer size of our arid regions, knowledge of the deserts fauna ...

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 ...

But global warming is putting them under unprecedented pressure, which Australian researchers have likened to an increase in the “cost of living” for these cold-blooded reptiles. Desert ...

Making a home in the dry heat of the Australian desert requires some pretty nifty adaptations, and this guy is no exception. In 2016, scientists figured out the clever way this lizard can soak up ...

The team of researchers ventured into several remote mountain ranges in central Australia to search for lizards ... Tjoritja geckos live in rocky desert areas with sparse vegetation, “low ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...