The tiny lizard, who weighs just 30g, was left in a box at the Animal Welfare League’s Wingfield shelter on Sunday, a long way from his more common home in the desert of the state’s Far North and ...

The thorny devil (Moloch horridus) looks like something straight out of an old Japanese monster film. Thankfully, the lizard only averages eight inches (20 centimeters) long and spends most of its ...

How the thorny devil takes “flat out like a lizard drinking” to the extreme. One of the standard Aussie replies to somebody who asks you how hard you’re working is “flat out like a lizard drinking”.

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The scales of thorny devils are a scientific marvel; these lizards use their skin like a drinking straw. But where does the water come from that allows them to survive in Australia's driest deserts?

The thorny devil (Moloch horridus) is also known as the thorny dragon or the mountain devil. It’s a small (up to 8 inches in length), spiky lizard native to Australia. They live in the arid scrubland ...