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The intriguing Australian sleepy lizard has raised new questions about vertebrate immunity after the surprise discovery of the evolutionary disappearance of genes needed for some T cell production in ...

Australian researchers have discovered that sleepy lizards (Tiliqua rugosus) can recognize the smell of smoke as a sign of approaching fire and attempt to escape, but they do not respond to the sound ...

Tiliqua rugosa—also known as the sleepy lizard—is a gorgeously chunky species, part lizard and part pinecone in appearance, which is found across the southern half of Australia. But it’s what’s on the ...

THEY are the romantics of the lizard world — mating for life, mourning their dead, and even spooning each other at night. But a new virus, observed for the first time, could be the death of our sleepy ...

SOUTH Australia’s sleepy lizard population could be the new “canary in a coalmine” for environmental contamination, according to new research results. lA study, published in Royal Society Open Science ...

A special issue of Austral Ecology this month is celebrating the legacy of an internationally renowned South Australian ecologist, whose work inspired a new generation of scientists and launched a ...