A Rough-scaled Sun Skink (Eutropis rugifera) spotted on the side of a tree at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, Singapore on 29 Sept 2024. An uncommon forest skink with overlapping scales that give it its rough appearance.

On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244650825 ].

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Electroscincus zedi: Compound Osteoderms preserved in #Amber reveal the Oldest Known Skink https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/electroscincus.html

"#Scincidae is one of the most species-rich and cosmopolitan clades of squamate #reptiles. Abundant disarticulated #fossil material has also been attributed to this group, however, no complete pre-#Cenozoic crown-scincid specimens have been found. A specimen in #Burmite (99 MYA) is the first fossil that can be unambiguously referred to this clade."