Who do some lizards have exotic blue tails? They’re super attractive to your eye, but does it work the same way for other predators out there that might see those attractive colors? A new study ...

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 ...

Neon blue-tailed tree lizards are perfectly happy scurrying from branch to branch in their arboreal homes, but it wasn't clear whether they simply leaping between branches or glide. Researchers ...

Young lizards of many species often have a vibrantly blue tail that’s also detachable. That way, when would-be predators attack, their attention is diverted towards the expendable body part that can ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Hanging around our parks (or your house) may be a few lizards; here in Indiana, we are home to at least six. We have the six-lined racerunner, five-lined skink, broadhead skink, ...

The copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) has become extinct from the Hawaiian islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said today. The skink, a sleek lizard with smooth, polished scales and a ...

A meter-long, blue-tailed lizard had been stalking the Mussau Island in Papua New Guinea for 2 million years before being discovered. Not many animals live on the Pacific islands. Local animal ...

A rarely seen lizard with a "vivid blue tail" has shocked a local tourism operator with a dream sighting in remote Far North Queensland. A wildlife tour guide says the sighting happened in Cape York ...

A remarkable milestone in herpetological research has been achieved with the rediscovery of the Blue-tailed Sandveld Lizard (Nucras caesicaudata), a species that had eluded scientists for more than ...

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 ...