Hoskin found Scawfell Island sun skinks in rainforest areas with “granite rocks,” such as several leaf-filled “gullies.” He ...

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 ...

In a megacity of southern China lived an elusive creature with a “window” in its eyelid. The “stout” animal largely avoided ...

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Their lower eyelids have a “transparent” window-like disc. Some adult skinks had “regrown” tails. Males and females of the new species vary in coloring, Hoskin said and photos show.

The researchers had even referred in their scientific paper to the two rupee notes which had the image of this particular skink. They believe a specimen of this species deposited in the Natural ...

The most common species are Chinese skinks and long-tailed skinks. Their long, slender cylindrical bodies and cone-shaped heads are frequently colourfully striped; some species are banded ...

"Pygmy spiny-tailed skinks look and act a lot like babies of the endangered western spiny-tailed skink, which live in the same area, so if these snakes are preying on one of them, they are likely ...

Millions of animals call the rainforests of South America home, but despite their prevalence, many are poorly understood or completely absent from the scientific record. In Ecuador, a group of ...

Chengdu ground skinks are considered “medium-sized,” reaching just under 4 inches in length, the study said. They have “stout” bodies with “relatively long” tails and “slender ...

Adorned with a light-pink tail, the Cedar Key mole skink lives exclusively on the shorelines of the Cedar Key islands, along roughly 10 miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast. The lizards burrow in dry sand ...