When I was a kid, I loved to read about Australia's extinct megafauna. It seem there was a giant Pleistocene version of just about everything - giant wombats, giant koalas, giant echidnas, giant goannas. So I imagined for myself a fantasy megafaunal version of my favourite lizards - the bluetongues in the genus Tiliqua. Now they are a reality.
https://theconversation.com/meet-the-biggest-and-most-bizarre-skink-ever-found-in-australia-it-became-extinct-47-000-years-ago-206764

#MegaFauna #Tiliqua

COVID finally caught up with me and I strongly dislike, do not recommend, 1/10. Silver lining is having the time to get to know the housemates 🦎 #BlueTongued #Tiliqua #scincoides

RT @ApuntesCiencia@twitter.com

¡#HolaCiencia! Cuando se siente amenazado, el #tiliqua (género Tiliqua) encara al depredador, abre su bocaza y agita su brillante lengua azul • vía @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com #VideoCiencia Dr Chris Jolly

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ApuntesCiencia/status/1605086948007239681

Just got home in Aranda, ACT and found a lovely blue-tongued skink (#Tiliqua scincoides) engaged in a dangerous stick impersonation as it sunned itself on the road outside the house. On slow approach, it shuffled off into the garden.

#misconceptions #exoticpets #tiliqua #gigas #rhacodactylus #leachianus #herpetocukture #temperture #humidity