Rare reptiles are moving up mountains as the world warms. They can’t keep doing it forever
- Written by Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
 
Mountain Dragon (_Rankinia diemensis_).reiner/iNaturalist, CC BY-NC-SAIn pockets of highlands across Australia’s east lives a shy and secretive lizard. It’s usually reddish grey in colour, with two pale strips running the length of its spiky back. Growing to a maximum of 20 centimetres, it could easily fit in the palm of an...





