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, ...

Meet a ground skink, for a change. We all know about the pretty five-lined skinks, the lizards with blue tails, that we see sunning in our yards. We’ve also seen the bigger broadhead skinks. The males ...

Although even the national websites and databases of national day observances can't tell us why, National Reptile Awareness Day is celebrated annually on October 21, which is today. According to ...

RIVER VALLEY and OZARK AREA — Like many Arkansans, I enjoy watching birds. Now I’m a lizard-watcher, too. I know it sounds eccentric, but lizard-watching is just as much fun as bird-watching. My ...

The birds are checking the blueberry bushes with great anticipation and so is the box turtle, but the critter I was most surprised to see among my berries so early in the season is a broadhead skink.

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 8, 1989: The first female broadhead skink ever found in Kansas had laid eight eggs this week. Belinda Sue, who was residing at Kansas University’s Museum ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KANSAS REFLECTOR) - A lizard, a turtle and a fish are prospering in Kansas after spending years on the state’s threatened list. A Nov. 21 proposal to the Kansas Wildlife and Parks ...

THREE RIVERS AREA — Like many Arkansans, I enjoy watching birds. Now I’m a lizard watcher, too. I know it sounds eccentric, but lizard watching is just as much fun as bird-watching. My forays into ...

The northern map turtle is one of three threatened species in Kansas recommended for downlisting after strides in research. (Missouri Department of Conservation) TOPEKA — A lizard, a turtle and a fish ...