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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a new monitor lizard on the remote island of Mussau, which has a turquoise or blue-pigmented tail, and a pale yellow tongue, a trait that it shares with only three other ...

I’m not normally too keen on reptiles. In Indiana where I grew up, snakes were relatively rare. The first one I saw was trapped in a storm gutter, and I remember staring at it with a strange ...

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 ...

At this moment, the male side-blotched lizards of the American West are engaged in dating drama beyond human comprehension. Three different morphs of lizard, all with different colors and different ...