Mr. Googie got us little kids really going. "Today," announced Mr. G., a Grace Church Camp counselor in Palisades Interstate Park 50 years ago, "you're going to see the blue-tailed skink! It's a ...

I know I have written time and time again how funny common names of creatures can be. Sometimes these common names can describe where an animal lives, what time of day it is active or even its ...

Hundreds of new species were discovered in 2025, with over 850 new marine species documented and many more described by ...

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

In 2011 it was the turtle. Now, 2012 has been proclaimed the Year of the Lizard by Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC) to raise awareness for lizard conservation. The Connecticut ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

Red-eyed crocodile skinks are unique and adorable members of the Scincidae family. These lizards aren’t overly fond of humans. They're considered intermediate-level skinks in the pet care community.

We live in an age of alarming extinction, in which many species are lost in large part due to human activity. At the same time, the natural world is so complex that even after centuries of research, ...

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 ...

Lizards are famous for their strange ability to lose their own tails. This ability is called tail autotomy, a survival ...

DEAR JOAN: My wife and I were sitting on the patio the other afternoon. We’re used to seeing a lot of Western fence lizards around. They seem to like the patio. We’ve even had an alligator lizard on ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — Learning can be a quick shortcut for figuring out how to do something on your own. The ability to learn from watching another individual — called social learning — is something that ...