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In 2019, officials at the Chennai airport seized a horned pit viper snake, five Iguanas, four blue-tongued skinks, three green tree frogs and 22 Egyptian tortoises from a man travelling from Thailand.

"These skulls had both been previously described as part of a European genus of skink ancestors, but we wanted to investigate that further with 3D data," Meyer said.

A three-year-long imaging study only recently revealed the devotion of Cunningham skink mothers.

On Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, the invasive wolf snake has been driving blue-tailed skinks and other reptiles toward extinction, for example.

Along nearby Hog Bayou, blue buntings and scarlet tanagers dart through magnolia branches and skinks skitter up trees.