It also goes by the name Bocourt’s terrific skink, in honor of Marie-Firmin Bocourt, a French artist and zoologist who also worked at the Paris Museum of Natural History and was first to recognize the ...

Learn how to get rid of skinks in the yard and garden naturally without using harsh chemicals! More that 10 methods to try!

For most of the animal kingdom, babies are born in one of two ways: their parent either lays eggs or gives birth to live offspring. Recently, a three-toed skink (Saiphos equalis) pulled off an ...

The winner of the Cullen Skink World Championships has been crowned. Cullen skink is a popular traditional Scottish soup made primarily with smoked haddock, milk, potato and onion. The contest was ...

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When bluetongue skinks are attacked, they don’t curl up or run for cover. Instead, they stick out their vibrant tongues to scare away predators. This type of reaction, called a deimatic display, is ...

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 five-lined skink is the only native New Jersey lizard that is found throughout the state. (Two others, the brown skink and fence lizard, are found only in the southern part of the state.) In North ...

Florida Keys mole skinks burrow down into the sand. They are found mainly in the Dry Tortugas and the Lower Keys. Jake Scott Center for Biological Diversity A small, shiny, brown lizard with a bright ...

The harsh arid landscape of central Australia is known for its exciting fossil deposits, including a newly described species of ancient skink. In 2017, palaeo-herpetologst Kailah Thorn was walking ...