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Striped broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)
(credit: John H. Gerard from The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers)
Any of about 1,275 species (family Scincidae) of lizards found throughout the tropics and in temperate regions of North America. Skinks have a cylindrical body, a conical head, and a long, tapering tail. Some species are 26 in. (66 cm) long, but most are under 8 in. (20 cm). Some have small or no limbs and sunken eardrums. Most are ground-dwellers or burrowers; some are arboreal or semiaquatic. Skinks eat insects and other small invertebrates; large species are herbivorous. Some species lay eggs; others bear live young.



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Then, Michael Bull of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, reported that some of Australia's big, live-bearing skinks are monogamous.
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There was also a scattering of newts and ground skinks, zigzag and long-tailed salamanders, and numerous green cricket frogs.
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