Australian dragons cycle through more than 350 episodes of rapid eye movement and slow-wave sleep each night, spending about half their sleeping hours in each phase. Dr. Stephan Junek, Max Planck ...

Do dragons dream? Maybe, according to new research that finds rapid eye movement (REM) and slow-wave sleep in a lizard, the Australian dragon, for the first time. The discovery suggests that these ...

Hotter temperatures are messing with the gender of Australia's bearded dragon lizards, a new study finds. Dragons that are genetically male hatch as females and give birth to other lizards. And the ...

Australia’s national science agency is trying to make amends for a gap in its research — dragons. Sophia Lester, 7, of Queensland wrote the scientists when her parents couldn’t fulfill her request for ...