“We’ve got a runner!” A blue-tailed skink the length of a birthday candle sits atop a stack of sticks and rocks, which in turn sits on top of the lizard’s perspex tank. Today is census day at ...

The skink has a distinctive blue lining to its mouth, researchers said. Photo by Stephen Richards The skink is described as having a kite-shaped head, a blue mouth, and a “robust” body covered in ...

California is home to dozens of lizards and other reptiles ... has stripes that run down it and a really long blue tail." Sometimes these skinks will have a reddish head, throat and tail during ...