The Australian major skink (Bellatorias frerei) evolved to resist a specific component of snake neurotoxins. In the case of the major skink (Bellatorias frerei), resistance comes in the form of ...

Hidden by the tall grass, an elusive creature crawled along the ground. The scaly animal slipped in and out of the cracks in the Australian soil, evading people so well that it was feared extinct. Not ...

Australia’s Major Skink (Bellatorias frerei) has evolved the same venom resistance mutation as the honey badger (Mellivora capensis) which is found across Africa, Southwest Asia, and the Indian ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by scientists worldwide. Even so, each discovery of an animal previously unknown to ...

A captive breeding program by Zoos Victoria has culminated in the release of the lizards to a specially created field enclosure furnished with granite rocks and hundreds of their preferred plants ...

The guthega skink only lives at high elevations and spends months hibernating under the snow ...

A large skink resting on a piece of wood. Credit: I Wayan Sumatika / Shutterstock. For most animals, getting bitten by a venomous cobra is a death sentence—and a particularly unpleasant one. Cobra ...

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