The Florida Keys mole skink is one of the rarest and most mysterious of Florida natives. This small, five-inch-long lizard has shiny, armor-like scales, a pinkish-red tail and a brown body. It's a ...

The two rupee note that was in circulation in the 1970s had an image of a skink. The Skink Dasia halianus known as Polon Hikanala in Sinhala was an endemic creature at the time its portrait appeared ...

A James Cook University biologist has discovered a new species of lizard on Scawfell Island, a remote island 50 km east of Mackay in north Queensland. Associate Professor Conrad Hoskin named the ...

Questions have been raised over a three-week mission to locate and re-home three native skinks, at a cost of $85,000. It involved clearing vegetation along State Highway Three near New Plymouth ...

He said multiple island surveys and genetic tests were conducted over four years to confirm the skink was not found anywhere else in the world. Now identified and named, the Scawfell Island ...

Guthega Skinks which have been bred through a program to enhance their genetics have been released in Victoria’s Bogong High Plains. It's hoped the new genetic mix for the skinks will make them ...