Darwin's Monster: The Australian Three-Toed Skink

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This bizarre little creature might look like nature couldn’t make up its mind—but hidden in its odd features are powerful clues about how evolution works.
In this episode of Stated Clearly, science communicator Jon Perry examines a living species that provides compelling evidence for evolution. Through close observation of this one animal, we explore how traits can be lost, how new ones emerge, and how environmental pressures drive change over generations.
Whether you're curious about evolutionary biology, teaching science in the classroom, or just love weird animals with amazing backstories, this video is for you.
🦎 Strange anatomy
🧬 Evolution in action
📚 Concepts made simple
This isn’t a lecture—it’s a journey through the living world that will leave you looking at snakes, lizards, and pregnancy, in a whole new light.
Watch now to see what makes this creature one of Darwin’s little monsters.

Papers:
The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb
DOI:10.1038/nature04637

Evolution of fossorial locomotion in the transition from tetrapod to snake-like in lizards
DOI:10.1098/rspb.2020.0192

Understanding the evolution of viviparity using intraspecific variation in reproductive mode and transitional forms of pregnancy
DOI:10.1111/brv.12836

Intraspecific variation in reproductive mode within the scincid lizard Saiphos equalis
DOI:10.1071/ZO97023

A Review of Placentation among Reptiles with, particular regard to the Function and Evolution of the Placenta.
DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1935.tb01686.x

Uterine and Eggshell Structure and Histochemistry in a Lizard With Prolonged Uterine Egg Retention
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

Placental calcium provision in a lizard with prolonged oviductal
egg retention
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

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