Skink bizarrely lays eggs and gives birth

By Laura Polson
Updated April 3 2019 - 3:23pm, first published 3:20pm
A three-toed skink gave birth to eggs followed by a live baby weeks later from the same pregnancy.
A three-toed skink gave birth to eggs followed by a live baby weeks later from the same pregnancy.

Skinks may be much stranger than previously thought after researchers discovered a lizard which laid eggs and gave birth to live young in the one pregnancy.

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