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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...