This lizard’s vivid blue tongue isn’t just for show—it’s a clever defense tactic that startles predators in the wild.

A lizard from Tasmania is the first non-egg-laying animal known to sometimes switch sexes before birth, depending on the surrounding temperatures. Some egg-laying fish, frogs and reptiles hatch with ...

A family in Australia were shocked this week after discovering a venomous copperhead snake lurking under the Christmas tree. Felicity Richardson, of Glenlusk, a suburb of Hobart in Tasmania, said she ...