Four years after he sent out an email asking if families wanted to ride, Matt Fritzinger has seen the Blue-Tailed Skinks skyrocket in popularity across Sonoma County. To find out more about the ...

They took a closer look at the lizards, tested their DNA and realized they’d discovered a new species: Scincella auranticaudata, or the orange-tailed ground skink. A Scincella auranticaudata ...

It said three reptile species are now considered extinct in the wild. The whiptail-skink, the blue-tailed skink and Lister's gecko from Australia's Christmas Island all have mysteriously disappeared.