The biggest in our area is the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps), found in coastal maritime forests and other open, wooded areas. Adults can reach lengths of 13 inches.

Some species, especially the broad-headed skink, get several inches long and during the breeding season have a bright red head and coppery brown body. Q.

The biggest in our area is the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps), found in coastal maritime forests and other open, wooded areas. Adults can reach lengths of 13 inches.

The biggest in our area is the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps), found in coastal maritime forests and other open, wooded areas. Adults can reach lengths of 13 inches.

The broad-headed skink is a foot-long brown lizard that prefers the drier live-oak hammocks of Central Florida. The skinks live in hollow stumps or logs. Young skinks are black with five stripes an… ...

Lizards such as the 13 found in southern Missouri are much more often heard than seen.

Skinks are lizards — lesser-known relatives of the familiar green anoles so common here in the Lowcountry. As a group, skinks (family Scincidae) are among the most widespread of all lizards ...

Secretary of the KDWP, Chris Kennedy, is now recommending the northern map turtle, shoal chub and broad-headed skink be taken from threatened status and instead be recognized as SINC.

It has the ring of something clandestine, but a broad headed skink is a lizard native to Virginia. The pair of skinks chose the sidewalk of the Blue Ridge Library to have a tryst. Indeed a biology ...

The biggest in our area is the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps), found in coastal maritime forests and other open, wooded areas. Adults can reach lengths of 13 inches.