Then there are skinks, which can get pretty big. Skinks have alternating
stripes down their backs and have blue tails. Very pretty!

http://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/eumine.htm

It was a young skink she was "stalking". Rumour has it they are poisonous,
but that's a myth. They just taste bad to predators.

There are a lot of anecdotes out there in support of the "myth" if
it is one. And as far as I can see, no published investigation by
a qualified toxicologist to decide it either way.

The folks saying they're poisonous have *some* evidence even if it may
be tenuous and folkloric - those poo-pooing it don't cite any at all.

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