Have you ever stepped outside your house and seen a lizard with a blue tail scurry across your porch? Chances are it was a five-lined skink, a reptile that spends a lot of its time around houses and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. According to the Bishop Museum website, Hawaii is the ...

At first glance, skinks and newts have many similarities. However, potential new owners should understand that these are completely different species. They don’t even belong to the same class of ...