IT MIGHT sound like the start of a joke to ask why blue-tongue lizards have a blue tongue. But it is a question asked – and answered – by Macquarie University scientists who wanted to know why ...

They give off little doggy odor and are easy to house-train. The blue-tongued lizard or skink is said to use its tongue to keep predators away. The rest of its body is typically neutral in color ...

Credit: Mashable The blue-tongued skink, also known as a blue-tongued lizard, is already fascinating due to its colourful gob, but researchers have discovered its secret power. Ordinarily when ...

The melanin-pigmented tongue of a bluetongue skink looks like it’s been dipped in blue paint ... predators that possibly can see UV rays. The lizards are slow-moving, and their brown-banded ...

Blue-tongued skinks are popular pets among reptile enthusiasts. They’re relatively small lizards that only grow up to 24 inches long. They’re docile and like to eat insects, fruits ...

also known as a blue-tongued lizards, are now part of an important research due to the ultraviolet-reflective nature of their tongue. These creature have often startled researchers but a new study ...

it was thought that the pygmy blue-tongue lizard was extinct. But the enigmatic reptile was simply laying low. "[They're] hide and seek champions," Ms Trewartha jokes as we methodically scour the ...

Komodo dragons and blue-tongued skinks are both types of lizards. So what exactly makes a lizard? Lizards are covered in scales that act as an armor to protect them from predators. They are all ...

This telling of the Jukurrpa story about the blue tongue lizard, Lungkarda-kurlu, was originally created at the Bilingual Resource Development Unit in Yuendumu to support Warlpiri language learning.