HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference

But the idea of skink control in a space as large as a ladies 'room is frightening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

Mcz: Oh, and one of the things I noticed about the skink was the concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 135] Reference

My left hand is once again tightening on the skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

KING: All right, let's meet the blue-tongued skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2004] Reference

I think I want to keep the skink and let the man go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

HANNA: That's why they call it a blue tongued skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference

HANNA: A skink is again almost a prehistoric animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2002] Reference

The skink Tachygia microlepsis is considered extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tongan tropical moist forests] Reference

HANNA: Oh, that's a prehensile tail skink right there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference

How would you like to be known as a blue tongued skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference

KING: I think that in real life blue-tongue skink this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2002] Reference

Quick as a skink, Christopher Austin's hand flashed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

HANNA: Do you think the boys would like a skink at home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2008] Reference

Save the skink, I tell myself, careful with the creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

The lizard, a skink, is native to Maryland and nonpoisonous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montgomery County animal watch] Reference

I shove him with my forearms, still mindful of onlyone skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

Before we get to the little skink here, concerning the bat thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference

Life history and ecology of the five-lined skink, Eumeces fasciatus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference

I relax atiny bitand imagine the skink absorbing the water I'veprovided.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

Characteristic lizards are the Caroline anole and the brown red-tailed skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everglades Province (Bailey)] Reference

Its common name, he said, is Borneo striped skink, or Borneo striped lipinia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

The skink is lashing his tail — it's flicking back and forth across my wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

While not as startling as the blue tail of a skink, this hair is hard to ignore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

The only species known to be present is the Fiordland skink (Oligosoma acrinasum).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiordland temperate forests] Reference

I caress the skink close to my waist, shielding him now from David's view with my body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

He returned with more than he bargained for – three previously unknown species of skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

The skink is an adolescent — small enough to conceal in mylefthand, except for the tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

On one occasion a small skink lizard was introduced, and the snake commenced a lively chase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

This particular individual had 4 upper labial scales, which would make it a five-lined skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probably a five-lined skink...] Reference

Now, the neat thing about the skink, Larry, a lot of times -- the tail kind of looks like a head.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2006] Reference

Here just outside the entrance is the wrought iron fence where I picked the skink up on the way in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

Nearly 60 reptiles are found in the hotspot, though only one is endemic, a skink, Asymblepharus alaicus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the mountains of Central Asia] Reference

It is either the common five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus) or the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps).    From Wordnik.com.  [Probably a five-lined skink...] Reference

He chucked the reins and the big skink hissed slightly, turning its narrow blindered head to look back at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

One, Pedra Branca skink Pseudemoia palfreyman (R), lives only on the small rocky island of Pedra Branca off the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference

The Fiordland skink is found on two mainland locations and the exposed rocky shores of numerous islands along the Fiordland coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiordland temperate forests] Reference

The underside of logs is a great place to find animal life, and Austin said he probably turned over hundreds before he found the new skink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference