Makes me wonder how many undocumented species people see daily without realizing they are seeing something special?

This skink doesn’t look like anything out of the ordinary to me, and if I saw him, the thought would never enter my head that it could be a undiscovered species.

The little lizard I saw on a rock hiking a few years back could have, just as easily as this skink, been an undiscovered species- but to me he was just a cute little lizard and assumedly very common around the area. The thought never occurred to me “well maybe this species of lizard is undocumented! Let me get a photo and bring it for investigation!” I just simply admired him for a bit and continued my hike. Yes, he was more than likely a very common, documented species- but you get my point

I read up Ken Griffiths’ excellent guide to Sydney skinks, and felt challenged to photograph every skink species in the Sydney basin. I’ve been slowly working towards that goal ever since.

Many of them are now on my site (under “Up close and personal”) but I have many more to go.

The NZ skink depicted in the photo here looks very similar to the Blue Mountains water skink (at least to my very very amateur eyes!)

I’d love to see the bug-eyed-bigfoot-skink though!! I’m surprised you didn’t title this article “Bigfoot captured in New Zealand!”, Loren!

Why not a pic of the “goggle-eyed beast” with huge eyes and big feet that was so obviously “something not known to science”?