Now this is the interesting part. Scientists have determined over the ages lizards are making an evolutionary move from eggs to live births, Consider the yellow-bellied three-toed skinks of Australia.

Skink bizarrely lays eggs and gives birth An Australian skink which laid eggs and gave birth weeks later provides an opportunity to study the evolution of pregnancy, a Sydney researcher says.

VIRGINIA BEACH Renee Wampler was lucky to come across this scene of a mama skink incubating eggs in her Bay Colony backyard. Wampler was moving a flowerpot and discovered the nest. “Obviously… ...

A three-toed skink recently laid three eggs and delivered another baby through live birth in the same pregnancy. That could mean that the species is in a rare transitional form between egg-laying ...

Cullen found four ground skink eggs in the pot of a plant he was transplanting to the Butterfly Garden at Virginia Beach Middle School. Cullen teaches there and oversees the butterfly garden.

A skink species lays eggs on the coast but births babies in the mountains, giving a rare glimpse at how placentas evolved, scientists say. By Brian Handwerk. September 1, 2010 ...

The three-toed skink displays geographic variation in reproductive mode. It has four very tiny legs, and only three toes per foot. Yi-Kai Tea. Even the egg-laying members of the species are odd ...

For skinks, sex is a question of its chromosomes, the temperature it was reared under and the amount of yolk it had as an egg. Adding and removing yolk from skink eggs can alter the sex of the ...

Skinks create nests in moist soil under objects in the garden, with females laying around four eggs each, sometimes in communal nests which hold dozens of eggs.

A three-toed skink recently laid three eggs and delivered another baby through live birth in the same pregnancy. That could mean that the species is in a rare transitional form between egg-laying ...