https://www.europesays.com/uk/182801/ Woman Sees Legs And Tail Sticking Out Of Her Concrete Porch — Then They Move #DailyDodo #Lizards #SarahAshley #Science #skinks #standard #TheDodo #UK #UnitedKingdom #wildlife #WildlifeRescue
The Japanese Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon finitimus) can escape predators by dropping its tail. The regrown tail is supported by a cartilaginous rod instead of vertebrae.
@loren I do, regularly! Already saw some this morning! https://photos.lane.net.nz/index.php?/category/76 #skinks #FTW
*Tiliqua scincoides* aka the Common Bluetongue, among the vegetable beds. Very happy as this one is just a wee baby... so it looks as though they've successfully bred this year in our vicinity. #nature #wildlife #australia #biodiversity #reptiles #Skinks #lizards #herpetology #gardens #rewilding
A Rough-scaled Sun Skink (Eutropis rugifera) spotted on the side of a tree at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 29 Sept 2024. An uncommon forest skink with overlapping scales that give it its rough appearance.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244650825 ].
A Treasure Trove of Endemics: Two #NewSpecies of Snake-eyed #Skinks of the Genus Panaspis from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/panaspis.html paper: https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/121103/
#SerraDaNeve is an isolated mountain of subvolcanic origin with a basal area of approximately 630 km2 and is the second highest peak of #Angola at 2489 m. Recent fieldwork at Serra da Neve revealed an impressive number of strictly #endemic species.
Cheese puffs as self-help. #comics #animalmeme #food #squirrels #skinks GET THESE BY EMAIL: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/snacks/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post&utm_content=rooniecomics
It seems counter-intuitive, but it's very real. #webcomics #animalcomic #rabbit #skinks GET THESE BY EMAIL: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/hiding/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post&utm_content=rooniecomics
I mean, look, it's possible. It could happen. #comics #comicstrips #fear #skinks GET THESE BY EMAIL: https://rooniecomics.com/comics/realistic/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=post&utm_content=rooniecomics
A western skink poked its nose out of the succulent pot, but disappeared before i could get a picture of its wonderful blue tail
#skinks #reptiles #gardening
In the 2020 Tetrapod Zoology article on Corucia - the Solomon Islands monkey-tailed skink - Darren Nash mentioned a report that referred to individuals being discovered, submerged, in a water-filled tree hollow. See latest comment, recently added here.
https://tetzoo.com/blog/2020/2/28/corucia-most-amazing-of-skinks #skinks #animals #research #SolomonIslands
Another win for the 5x zoom: Plestiodon skink on one of the few remaining logs on the property. Likely a Broad-headed skink
#NewSpecies
New skink from #vietnam just came up:
Scincella ouboteri
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/073987D5-FFB8-3752-FF3C-FCD3FD0CFC56
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5428.1.4
#Zootaxa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #reptiles #lizard #skinks
Pygmy spiny-tailed #skinks look and act a lot like babies of the #endangered western spiny-tailed skink, which live in the same area, so if these #snakes are preying on one of them, they are likely also preying on the other.
#Zoology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2024/03/zoo03082401.html