Unusual lizard lays eggs, then births a live baby — in the same pregnancy

Mongabay
Apr 5, 2019, 8:09 am245 pts
The yellow-bellied three-toed skink is not your typical lizard. Vertebrates or animals with backbones usually reproduce in one of two ways: they either lay eggs or they give birth to a live young baby. But the three-toed skink (Saiphos equalis) does both, its mode of reproduction varying with geography. In the…

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