(May 03, 2012) According to a new study, the Anguilla bank skink (pictured) is among 24 new species of skink found in the Caribbean - and one of only two known species in the region with a blue tail.

The Caribbean had been thought to house just six species of these smooth-scaled lizards. But when study leader Blair Hedges and colleagues reexamined skink specimens in museums around the world, they found that the animals were much more diverse.

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