Researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Liopholis aputja, or the Central Ranges rock skink. Central Ranges rock skinks are considered “moderately large,” reaching almost a foot ...

With its short, blunt snout and unique checkerboard pattern, this scaly creature — a skink — wasn’t like the other 35 related species that call the mountains home. The skink earned its name ...

I have looked for it for 20 years.” It turns out Sinovas had photographed Sphenomorphus anomalopus, also known as the long-toed forest skink — sightings of which had not been confirmed in 109 ...