The Armoured Lizard

Location: Western Australia
Species: shingleback-skink or shingleback lizard
Added: 2025-12-6
Published: 2023-3-25
Source: Brave Wilderness

Mark Vins of You Tube channel Brave Wilderness, encounters a feisty shingleback lizard on his first expedition to Western Australia! This lizard has large mandibles and razor Sharp teeth and it is also covered with blood sucking tics which Mark removes whilst trying to avoid being bitten.
The shingleback skink, shingleback lizard, or bob-tail lizard; is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink endemic to Australia.