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, found on ...

Eleven guthega skinks could soon become 13 thanks to a captive breeding program in the Alpine national park ...

Florida Keys mole skink. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Eight species of skink — a Caribbean lizard that is quickly disappearing — will be finally evaluated for protection under ...

The guthega skink only lives at high elevations and spends months hibernating under the snow ...

"Totally harmless and super chill." Gardener shares photos after spotting 'new housemate' living in yard: 'Gorgeous' first ...

A large skink resting on a piece of wood. Credit: I Wayan Sumatika / Shutterstock. For most animals, getting bitten by a venomous cobra is a death sentence—and a particularly unpleasant one. Cobra ...

The lizards have complicated a rule of thumb that in evolution, once you lose a body part, you don’t regain it. By Veronique Greenwood In the rainforest in the Philippines, scientists laid out a tiny ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by scientists worldwide. Even so, each discovery of an animal previously unknown to ...

For humans, sex is a simple matter of chromosomes: two Xs and we become female; one X and a Y and we develop into males. But things aren't so straightforward for many lizards - many studies have found ...