It's an early morning in January and we're walking through a patch of native heathy woodland in southwest Victoria, a few kilometers west of the town of Casterton, known as the birthplace of the ...

People often mistake slow worms for small snakes. The shape encourages it. They move through long grass with the same gliding motion, quickly disappear into dense cover, and spend much of their time ...

Meet the slow worm slithering across the garden like a tiny liquid shadow. A legless lizard, experts say, that somehow manages to fool everyone. Kids scream, gardeners blink, and people step over it ...