Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rare and legless lizard known for snapping off its tail to distract predators may soon get federal protection as an endangered ...

Jane Melville receives funding for this research from the Australian Research Council. Till Ramm was supported during his PhD by a doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation ...

On the snow-covered peaks of Australia’s rugged Alps, over 1,600 metres above sea level, there are few trees and only a handful of animal species that have evolved to exist in this extreme landscape.