Holland estimates that the goanna stretched about 5 feet across. "That is a big ass lizard," Kellar Autumn, a biologist who studies climbing mechanics at Lewish and Clark College in Oregon ...

The dinosaur-like heath goanna (Varanus rosenbergoi) serves as a natural clean-up crew when they scavenge and clean up maggot-ridden animal carcasses from the landscape. Fewer carcasses like this ...

After eventually trusting the method of rescue, the goanna secured a tight hold on the log with its tree-climbing claws and was pulled to safety. The dam's crew then grabbed a carp out of the weir ...

the other two are climbing the central tree, one lower down with his hatchet in his mouth and one higher up holding the hatchet as if about to strike the tree trunk. In the upper branches of the trees ...