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Ornate Burrowing Frog or “Sand Toad” Limnodynastes ornatus on Coolibah Eucalyptus microtheca leaf fall beside an intermittent stream in the wet season, in Coolibah woodland (Goonderoo Bush Heritage reserve) in the Brigalow Belt, Central Queensland, Australia. CQ31.17s

Well camouflaged Ornate Burrowing Frog or “Sand Toad” Limnodynastes ornatus beside an intermittent stream in the wet season, in Coolibah Eucalyptus microtheca woodland (Goonderoo Bush Heritage reserve) in the Brigalow Belt, Central Queensland, Australia. During the dry it will burrow underground to await the next rains. CQ30.8s

Striped Great Barred Frog Mixophyes fasciolatus on floor of subtropical rainforest, Springbrook NP in World Heritage Border Ranges region of SE Queensland. Mixophyes are large (80mm) frogs restricted to wet forests of the species-rich eastern Australian coasts and mountains. S95.10s

Crucifix toads Notaden bennettii form colourful aggregations in shallow desert puddles when ephemeral wetlands fill in inland Australia, providing opportunity to complete a reproductive cycle before going to ground again for perhaps a year or longer. S63-3s

Water-holding frog Cyclorana platycephalus adopts a threatening posture & inflates its flexible body full of water after life-giving floods on the arid Paroo River floodplain, Australia. As waters dry, it will burrow underground, living on its stored water. S39-10s	A spade-footed burrowing frog Neobatrachus sp. emerges above ground while conditions are moist and ephemeral wetlands have water from thunderstorms, in desert country, far northwest New South Wales, Australia. S8.10s	Giant Burrowing Frog Cyclorana novaehollandiae, emerged in inland Australian woodland after rain. These frogs aestivate underground waiting for wet surface conditions which may take many months in desert country. S101.12s	The business end of a large Pobblebonk or Northern Banjo Frog Limnodynastes terraereginae, a terrifying site for unwary insects on the floor of an open eucalypt forest, inland Queensland, Australia, after rain. S95.11s
Small diurnal, fast moving striped skink Ctenotus taeniolatus is a common small predator of insects in the leaf litter of forests, woodlands and among rocks and sand in eastern Australia. Snout-vent length is about 80mm. CQ24.21s	Blotched Blue-tongue Lizard Tiliqua nigrolutea is an upland relative of the common blue-tongued skink found throughout Australia. T. nigrolutea can tolerate the colder temperatures of its range in the southern mountains. L15.15s	Burton's Snake Lizard Lialis burtonis is a legless lizard, in which the limbs have regressed to mere scale flaps and its motion through forest leaf litter is snake-like, as it feeds in smaller lizards. Specimen from Gurig National Park, Australia. N19.14s	Lace Monitor or Tree Goanna Varanus varius is a proficient tree climber and diurnal predator in coastal forests of Australia. F16.6s	Lophognathus Dragon, sometimes called the Northern Water Dragon, showing bright white cheek stripe it uses for signalling during breeding season by bobbing its head up and down, Gurig National Park, Arnhem Land, N.T., Australia. N62.15s
A wary Saltwater or Estuarine Crocodile Crocodylus porosus on its mud slide beside a narrow mangrove distributary channel in the extensive mangrove wetlands of Gurig Nat. Park, Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land, N.T. N17.20s	Saltwater or Estuarine Crocodile Crocodylus porosus sunbaking beside Trepang Creek, part of the tidal wetland wilderness in Gurig Nat. Park, Cobourg Peninsula, Arnhem Land. Ectotherms like crocs need to thermoregulate body temperature.N88-16s	Tree Dtella Gehyra variegata a common arboreal gecko throughout most of Australia. Other dtella in the genus range from Madagasca through SE Asia to the Pacific. Geckos have lidless eyes covered by transparent shield shed with skin, and complex pupils with a mosaic of pinhole-openings during daylight.S29.8s	Threatening display as a means of defence by the Shingle-back Lizard or Stumpy-tail Trachydosaurus rugosus from inland Australia uses startling pink gape and blue tongue to put off potential predators, aided by thick scaley skin.S30.17s	Saltwater or estuarine crocadile Crocodylus porosus skulks in the margin of a tropical billabong wetland, watchful for an opportunity to seize an animal coming to drink, which it will twist off its feet and drag into the billabong to drown. Q30.12s
Keen night vision of gecko Diplodactylus sp. as it hunts over the cracked floodplain soil of the Paroo River, Currawinya NP, Channel Country SW Qld., Australia for unwary insects and spiders - part of the terrestrial phase of the cycle of ephemeral wetlands. S95.22s	Dragon lizard Tympanocryptis lineata, a small day-foraging dragon of inland grasslands & scrubs, props on a vantage point to watch for insect prey on Mitchell Grass Astrebla* plains, Lochern NP, outback Qld., Australia. *refers to cryptic skin-covered ear, characteristic of these personable little (150mm) 'earless dragons'. S104.15	Sand Goanna or Gould's Monitor Varanus gouldii, a terrestrial species of lizard, peers from a hollow termite mound it may use for laying its eggs, as it patrols in search of carrion or small vertebrate prey, Australia. S112.2s	Central Netted Dragon Amphibolurus nuchalis in typical desert sand country, Nocoleche Nature Reserve, Australia, one of many arid-adapted reptiles from Australia and other desert regions. S11.2s	Knob-tailed gecko Nephrurus levis on the warm desert sand of inland Australia at night as it hunts in the relative cool for small insects, before retreating to its burrow beneath the sand to avoid the hot desert sun. S12.20
Carpet Python Morelia spilotes rests after swallowing a large prey item, probably a small mammal such as a bandicoot, subdued by strangulation, wrapping its powerful body around the prey to constrict and suffocate, then swallowing by jaw dislocation. (Eungella National Park, Australia). Q2.2	Freshwater or Johnstone River Crocodile Crocodylus johnstoni beside a freshwater wetland in North Queensland, Australia. Freshwater crocs are smaller than the man-eating Saltwater croc, and feed by night on fish, birds etc. Q7.12	Black Rock Skink Egernia saxatilis intermedia lives in cracks and under exfoliating granite in the rocky parts of S.E. Australia, and suns itself on warm rock to increase its ectothermic metabolism while waiting for insects. L1.22