A James Cook University biologist has discovered a new species of lizard on Scawfell Island, a remote island 50 km east of ...

A James Cook University biologist has discovered a new species of lizard on Scawfell Island, a remote island 50km east of ...

A new lizard species, dubbed the Scawfell Island sunskink (Lampropholis isla), has been formally named after being discovered ...

Human population has spurred development along the shoreline in the Florida Keys, destroying many of the nooks and crannies this mole skink calls home. Following that 2020 legal victory by the Center, ...

The agency also proposed designating more than 150,400 acres of protected critical habitat for the four rare lizards. Three other skink species will not get protection because the Service has deemed ...

They took a closer look and soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Scincella truongi, or Truong’s smooth skink. A Scincella truongi, or Truong’s smooth skink. Photo from Anh Van Pham ...

Citing “extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise,” the Center for Biological Diversity ...

These include the Christmas Island pipistrelle, a species of bat last recorded in 2009, and the Christmas Island whiptail-skink, a lizard not seen in the wild since 2010. The whiptail-skink was also ...