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Copper-striped blue-tailed skink: Chris Brown, USGS. A species of lizard native to the Hawaiian Islands—the copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar)—is now officially extinct. The species was once common throughout the Hawaiian Islands and is still found on other island groups in the tropical Pacific. But the last confirmed sighting in the state of Hawaii was on the Na'Pali coast of Kauai in the 1960s.
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Twenty-four new species of lizards known as skinks have been discovered on Caribbean islands, half of which already may be extinct or close to extinction. The loss of many skink species can be attributed primarily to predation by th... Read Post

  Twenty-four recently discovered species of skinks are close to extinction. The skinks, a type of lizard, we’re recently discovered in the Caribbean, and scientifically named. The leader of the research team, Blair Hedges, says tha... Read Post

A species of lizard is now extinct from the Hawaiian Islands, making it the latest native vertebrate species to become extirpated from this tropical archipelago. The copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) -- a sleek lizard w... Read Post