Have you ever stepped outside your house and seen a lizard with a blue tail scurry across your porch? Chances are it was a five-lined skink, a reptile that spends a lot of its time around houses and ...

Mr. Googie got us little kids really going. "Today," announced Mr. G., a Grace Church Camp counselor in Palisades Interstate Park 50 years ago, "you're going to see the blue-tailed skink! It's a ...

A tiny rainbow-hued lizard which all but disappeared from the wild 10 years ago has been given the run of a brand new home — its very own tropical island off the WA coast. The skink was last spotted ...

In recent years, those who venture out on the rugged, rock outcrops along the Minnesota River in parts of Renville, Chippewa and Yellow Medicine counties have reported difficulty in finding the ...

A successful captive breeding program has revived the lister gecko and the blue-tailed skink species. THE LISTER GECKO (Lepidodactylus listeri) and the blue-tailed skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae) have ...

Five-lined skinks are native to Frederick County. Often seen darting to a hiding place when disturbed, the American five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus) likes to sun itself. Adults are about 6 to 9 ...

Not much is known about how or why, but the simple fact is that at some point a decade ago an entire species of tiny lizard vanished almost overnight from Christmas Island. The blue-tailed skink ...

There’s something unique about Lake Margrethe State Forest Campground apart from the almost constant gunfire resounding from the nearby Camp Grayling target range. It’s home to my first-ever sighting ...