Robert Valentic / Lowland blotched blue-tongue (Tiliqua nigrolutea) on a coastal bluff in the Bay of Fires region of north-eastern Tasmania, Australia, spring.

Robert Valentic / Portrait of an adult Three-toed Earless Skink (Hemiergis talbingoensis) Tallarook, Goulburn River in central Victoria, Australia.

Daniel Heuclin,Daniel Heuclin / Solomon islands / large prehensile-tailed Skink (Corucia zebrata) Solomon islands

Daniel Heuclin / Solomon islands / large prehensile-tailed Skink (Corucia zebrata) Solomon islands

Mitsuaki Iwago / Eastern Blue-tongue Skink (Tiliqua scincoides) showing tongue, Australia

Robert Valentic / Common Garden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti) subadult in urban garden, Cragieburn, Victoria, Australia. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Bougainvilles skink (Lerista bougainvillii) ironbark woodland habitat near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Southern water skink (Eulamprus tympanum) male from the banks of the Merri Creek, Melbourne, Australia. Controlled conditions

Robert Valentic / Cunningham's skink (Egernia cunninghami) basking at midday, Merri Creek on the northern fringe of metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. October. Controlled conditions.

Robert Valentic / European snake-eyed skink (Ablepharus kitaibellii) basking on stone in drystone wall. Milos Island, Cyclades, Greece.

Robert Valentic / Dreeite water skink (Eulamprus tympanum marnieae) male basking on rocks on shore of volcanic lake. Near Nerrin, Victoria, Australia.

Robert Valentic / Spotted forest skink (Sphenomorphus maculatus) Koh Chang, Thailand. Wet season.