An elderly man and woman were hospitalized and their dog seriously injured in Australia after a predatory lizard attacked them ... chased after a goanna, a carnivorous reptile found throughout ...

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Goannas are monitor lizards that can grow to more than 6 feet in length and “eat just about anything they can catch and swallow whole," according to Bush Heritage Australia, an environmental non ...

Goanna monitor lizards are common across Australia, but the majority of them don't usually grow as large as their family member, the Lace Monitor, which can stretch to more than six-and-a-half ...

Massive lizards could be used to guard sheep from being munched on by blowflies. These huge reptiles, known as heath goannas, are native Australian scavengers that feast on dead animals such as rats.

Giant lizards called heath goannas could save Australian sheep farmers millions of dollars a year by keeping blowfly numbers down—and must be prioritized in conservation schemes to boost native ...

Doody is a herpetologist from the University of South Florida who has spent years studying Australia’s yellow-spotted goanna—a predatory monitor lizard with long claws, a whiplike tail ...

Home to 1,000 species of reptiles, Australia has the distinction of representing a 10th of all diversity in the world. With the discovery of a new goanna lizard species, the Land Down Under just ...

A 72-year-old man was seriously injured after attempting to break up a fight between his pet dog and a giant Goanna lizard, the Australian Broadcasting Company reported. Attempting to save his pup ...

The monitor lizard, also known as a goanna, is considered to be the largest lizard in Australia and can grow to about 2 feet with a tail of about 5 feet long, according to OzAnimals.com.

Australian scientists have discovered the world's smallest goanna lizard in a remote region of the country. The Dampier Peninsula goanna, or Varanus Sparnus, is the 26th goanna species identified ...