SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - On this week’s Wild Wednesday, Great Plains Zoo Educational Director, Leigh Spencer, joined Dakota News Now to talk about the prehensile-tailed skink. Also known ...

DOC plans to control a mouse plague that is threatening to destroy a small population of critically endangered Alborn skinks near Reefton using the toxin brodifacoum in bait stations. Mouse numbers ...

Hoskin soon realized he’d discovered a new species: Lampropholis isla, or the Scawfell Island sun skink. A male Lampropholis isla, or Scawfell Island sun skink. Photo from Hoskin (2025 ...

Nearly a decade after almost going extinct, Aotearoa's endemic cobble skink's surprising comeback has been given a boost. One hundred and forty-eight skinks, initially bred as an "insurance" ...

11 Northern Blue Tongue Skink or Tiliqua Scincoides Intermedia Northern Blue Tongue Skink or Tiliqua ... These lizards are carnivores meaning they feed on small and larger mammals, other lizards, and ...

In a fortunate turn of events, an “insurance” population of 148 cobble skinks has been returned to the wild north of Westport on the South Island’s West Coast. It comes after a DOC ranger surveying ...

Photo from Hoskin (2025) On Scawfell Island, off the coast of Australia, a new species of skink, the Scawfell Island sun skink (Lampropholis isla), was discovered. These skinks, found basking in ...