While the concept of men battling 16–foot prehistoric lizards sounds like something out of a 50’s sci-fi flick, a new discovery in Australia has revealed that such encounters may have occurred.

The extinct giant lizard Megalania may have been the largest venomous animal to have roamed the earth, according to a new study. The claim, by an international team led by Australian researchers, ...

Giant carnivorous lizards shared turf with the earliest human settlers in Australia, according to a new study. Research led by the University of Queensland has dated a 1-centimeter lizard bone to be ...

A tiny fossil discovered in central eastern Australia turned out to be a piece of bone from the natural body armor of a giant monitor lizard – possibly an ancient Komodo dragon. According to ...

On a recent dig in the Central Queensland region of Australia, scientists uncovered something totally unexpected: a fossilized fragment from a giant lizard. While scientists have long known that giant ...

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As if life wasn't hard enough during the last Ice Age, a new study has found Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards. Researchers working in Central Queensland ...

Dragons may come from the land Down Under. Scientists now find that the world’s largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon, most likely evolved in Australia and dispersed westward to its current ...

What factors drive diversification in species groups with wide distributions and high morphological disparity? Pavón-Vázquez et al. used an extensive morphological and phylogenetic dataset to ...