It was the last thing a group of international visitors expected to see 1,000km from the shoreline. Find out more.

AFICIONADOS OF “Dune”, Frank Herbert’s novel about a planet covered by Sahara-like desert, will be familiar with the idea of animals that swim through sand. Giant worms which do just that are a ...

When the tiny lizard known as the sandfish moves through sand, it literally dives under the surface of the ground as if swimming. Now physicists have figured out how they do it – and want to build ...

A video shared to TikTok authentically showed a marine iguana found only in the Galápagos Islands. There are five species of lizard associated with states bordering Lake Superior, none of which ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A little Saharan lizard "swims" through desert sands by undulating its body in a series of ...

The sandfish lizard wriggles through desert sands like a sci-fi monster. Now, using computer simulations and bendy robots, researchers at Georgia Tech in Atlanta have taken the most complete look yet ...

When the sandfish lizard wishes to escape predators, it can actually dive beneath the surface of the sand, and then swim through it. Inspired by the sandfish, researchers at the Georgia Institute of ...

TO ADD to the robots that can crawl over land, fly through air and swim underwater comes one that can swim through sand. Such robots could help find people trapped in the loose debris resulting from ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --A Thailand man had to postpone his plans to shower when he went into his bathroom and discovered a massive monitor lizard in his water tank. Somchai Kunchai, 45, said he was preparing ...

“Can you imagine lifting the toilet seat and finding this?” says the post shared on Facebook. Snakes on planes and snakes inside bathrooms are old news. Now, it’s lizards making such random ...