The most alarming part of the post may be where the animals are now being found.

Once one the top predators in its ecosystem, the skink was presumed to be extinct by the latter half of the 1900s, due to a combination of habitat degradation and the introduction of rodents, such as ...

Mother Nature is capable of fashioning an incredible variety of creatures, but She’s especially adept at creating highly skilled tricksters. A handful of species employ aposematism (the use of bright ...

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 ...

Blue-tongued skinks are popular pets among reptile enthusiasts. They’re relatively small lizards that only grow up to 24 inches long. They’re docile and like to eat insects, fruits, and vegetables, so ...

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Unlike many mammals and birds, most reptiles show little sign of being caring parents. But our new research shows one lizard species may be more doting parents than we thought—the adults risking their ...

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 yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays its eggs along the coast of southeastern Australia. The yellow-bellied three-toed skink gives birth to live young in the mountains of Australia. Same species — ...

A post on r/NatureIsF*****Lit spotlighted the two-fingered skink, a North African reptile with only two digits on each tiny front limb. According to the original poster, the species is a "sand-swimmer ...