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 ...

Scientists paused their raking and looked at the striped animal they’d just uncovered ... and the team found several unfamiliar-looking armless lizards. Researchers took a closer look at ...

With its short, blunt snout and unique checkerboard pattern, this scaly creature — a skink — wasn’t like the other 35 related species that call the mountains home. The skink earned its name ...