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Australia races to save the last few remaining earless dragons in the wild

Australia’s grassland earless dragon is no bigger than a pinky finger when it emerges from its shell, but the tiny lizard faces a huge challenge in the coming years: avoiding extinction. As recently as 2019, scientists in Canberra counted hundreds of grassland earless dragons in the wild. This year they found 11. In other parts… Read More »