Vulnerable striped skinks encountered at the Mt Messenger Bypass construction site in Taranaki now have a new home Rotokare Scenic Reserve, near Eltham. A taonga species, the scarcely sighted ...

These snakes, with their “bright grass green” bodies and “serrated” reddish-brown markings ... a new species of skink, the Scawfell Island sun skink (Lampropholis isla), was discovered.

Seen from above, it has a copper hue with speckled brown markings on its sides. Seen from below, its stomach is cream “with large, irregular black spots.” Chengdu ground skinks were “most ...