Extinct Lizard News Today

A new article offers a ray of hope that the giant Tongan ground skink, nicknamed the “grey ghost,” may still inhabit remote areas of the South Pacific.

Scientists are studying lizards' evolution of birth, from laying of eggs to live births and they have succeeded in pinpointing the evolutionary genes from which the species is developing in order to 'build' a new way they reproduce. The study discovered that a remarkably close amount of the same genes involved in the lizards' pregnancy were distributed between other mammals and vertebrates that bear their young.