Why it's awesome: Thorny devils are native to Australia and live in the country's arid scrubland and interior desert. These small lizards grow to 8 inches (20 centimeters) long and have evolved an ...

A tiny lizard unique to Central Australia has been successfully bred at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Fourteen thorny devil hatchlings, or Moloch horridus, that weigh just 2 grams each were welcomed ...

A unique kind of lizard known as the thorny devil, or also called the thorny dragon, is able to live in intensely dry and arid environments because of an innate ability to draw water from the sand ...

It’s well-known that certain types of microbes can survive extreme environmental conditions. It turns out that some animals can, too. In their current paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology, ...

Scampering across the baking red Australian sand in search of an ant dinner, thorny devils look almost invincible in their coat of spikey armour; but their choice of diet may make survival more ...

From abandoned seal pups to walruses tumbling to their death, there's been plenty of heartbreak in David Attenborough's new series Seven Worlds, One Planet. And while there were plenty more ...

National Geographic has a good, ultimately hard-headed look at biomimetics -- using nature as a model for product design. Velcro would be the best example (it was invented in 1948 by copying ...

A unique kind of lizard known as the thorny devil, or also called the thorny dragon, is able to live in intensely dry and arid environments because of an innate ability to draw water from the sand ...