'Very, very unusual': Australian skink lays eggs, then gives birth to live baby

In world first, Sydney researchers observe lizard’s egg laying and live birth three weeks later from a single litter

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

Researchers at the University of Sydney observed a three-toed skink lay three eggs and weeks later give birth to a live baby.

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