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Varanid lizards often tongue-flick in feeding and social contexts, but little is known regarding their abilities to identify a variety of prey using only chemical cues or to detect pheromones. We ...

The West Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum Norman Moore says he is keen to release a report into the Varanus Island gas explosion but legal advice is preventing him from doing so. The ...

This lizard’s physiology rewrites what we thought reptiles were capable of. Here’s the truth behind its notorious reputation, ...

A long-awaited report on the Varanus Island gas explosion is highly critical of energy company Apache and industry regulators. An explosion on the island in 2008 cut WA's gas supply by 30 per cent for ...

Apache said the restart will be slightly ahead of schedule at a rate of 110 million cubic feet per day of gas, increasing to 220 MMcfd by the end of the month and to the full 300 MMcfd quota by the ...

Medicinal values linked to Varanus is posing a threat to its survival in the State. Moreover, the propaganda that Varanus meat acts as an aphrodisiac has resulted in the mass killing of the reptile.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. West Australian Premier Alan Carpenter says the worst of the state's gas crisis is over, with the return to partial production of the ...

From time to time, I’ve been accused of being a fossil killjoy. I pulverize childhood dreams like Diatryma crushed seeds (and not little horses). I’m not sure how true that is. I’ve yet to quantify ...

The world's largest living lizard is the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), a type of "varanid" lizard. Despite the fact that Komodo dragons are very interesting and widely known, there is a lot ...

Dragons aren’t real. At least, the fire-breathing wyverns and coiling wyrms of medieval lore aren’t. Those reptilian menaces were products of superstition and pre-scientific ideas about prehistoric ...