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Sun gazers, as these dragon-like lizards are known, are losing ground and numbers in their native South Africa.

Girdled lizards confiscated by the South African police in 2023. Image courtesy Endangered Wildlife Trust. Reptiles are particularly easy to smuggle, he adds.

Heavily-armoured and covered in spiny scales, South Africa’s rare and enigmatic sungazer lizards (Smaug giganteus) are named after Smaug, the fiery dragon of Middle-Earth in JRR Tolkien’s The ...

A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae).

The most important legal decision for lizards in 200,000,000 years has been handed down by a South African court. In Johannesburg Isaac Alter, owner of a curio shop, was haled before a court ...

A Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko, a type of lizard that previously hadn't been recorded since it was discovered in 1991, is photographed in the Blyde River Canyon in South Africa, Sunday, April 13, 2025.

Dozens of bizarre, blue poisonous sea creatures were discovered washed up on a beach in South Africa, stunning locals, according to a report.

Lizards in South Africa eavesdrop on their bird neighbours so they can work out when falcons are approaching and might eat them, a new study has found.

New research from museums in the Northern Territory and South Australia found a total of 11 sand dragon species, with four of those completely new to science.

Captive breeding attempts have not worked, which sets the species back further. We wanted to know what higher temperatures in South Africa will mean for endemic species like the sungazer lizard.

Unlike the dragon encountered by Bilbo Baggins, this little South Africa dragon does not deserve to die.