This prehensile-tailed skink reveals why it is commonly called a monkey tail skink. Native to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, the reptile uses its long, flexible tail to grip branches and ...

A green prehensile tail skink surprises the wildlife handler with its unusual monkey-like tail and tree-climbing abilities.

A diverse group of lizards known as the social skinks is helping scientists answer questions about some of the fundamental workings of evolution. Skinks are a large group of lizards that typically ...

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 ...

The chance sighting of a dead snake beside a sandy track in remote Western Australia, and the investigation of its stomach contents, has led researchers to record the first known instance of a spotted ...