It’s time for some major 'throwback Thursday' — albeit a prehistoric one.
The supersized skink was the size of an adult human arm and scared the predator away with its thick armor scales covering its skin. Its“In the dig at Wellington Caves, we started finding these spiked armored plates that had surprisingly never been recorded before.
Here, we describe a gigantic Pleistocene skink from Australia based on extensive material that includes much of the skull and postcranial skeleton, and spans ontogenetic stages from neonate to adult. Tiliqua frangens substantially expands the known ecomorphological diversity of squamates. At approximately 2.4 kg, it was more than double the mass of any living skink, with an exceptionally broad, deep skull, squat limbs and heavy, ornamented body armour.
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