These small lizards will certainly add beauty to a terrarium, but they aren’t as active as leopard geckos or skinks. If you want a pet reptile that you can easily and frequently handle, then the ...

However, New Zealand has a diverse cool-climate lizard fauna totalling 70–90 species of skink and gecko, many of which can be found in alpine habitats. Indeed, some, such as the black-eyed gecko ...

Many of our skinks and geckos are so new to science that they don’t even have names. Much of what we do know about our lizards is thanks to an amateur herpetologist from Invercargill with no academic ...

Skinks are generally carnivorous and feed on insects and also earthworms, millipedes, etc. They are found in different habitats. However Dasia halianus is an arboreal creature that lives on tree ...

Descriptions of the behavior of tokage led the researchers to infer the word possibly refers to gecko. It was only in the Edo Period (1603-1867) that skinks and geckos come to be distinguished ...

On the rock tors of Central Otago, herpetologist Carey Knox scans the schist ledges for lizards. He's looking for a grand skink, or an Otago skink. Both are endangered lizard species that became ...