Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa), family Scincidae, QLD, Australia

🐊 Unique Pet Alert: Shingleback (Bobtail) Lizard Available! 🐊

🐊 Unique Pet Alert: Shingleback (Bobtail) Lizard Available! 🐊

Looking for a one-of-a-kind reptile companion? Meet the Shingleback Lizard, also known as the Bobtail! With its iconic chunky tail and calm nature, this Aussie native makes for a fascinating, low-stress pet.

✨ Features:

Hardy and easy to care for

Docile temperament great for reptile enthusiasts

Distinctive look with a lovable “smile”

Long lifespan (up to 20+ years with proper care)

📦 Available now, healthy and well-cared for.

🐊 Unique Pet Alert: Shingleback (Bobtail) Lizard Available! 🐊

Looking for a one-of-a-kind reptile companion? Meet the Shingleback Lizard, also known as the Bobtail! With its iconic chunky tail and calm nature, this Aussie native makes for a fascinating, low-stress pet.

✨ Features:

Hardy and easy to care for

Docile temperament great for reptile enthusiasts

Distinctive look with a lovable “smile”

Long lifespan (up to 20+ years with proper care)

It’s 2am and I just finished off this new Strahliana beast!

The shovelback is based off of a shingleback lizard (also known as blue tongues and sleepy lizards), ankylosaurus, and stegosaurus. The idea came from the fact that sleepies have a false head as a tail as protection from predators, combined with the myth that stegosaurus had an extra brain in its tail.

These guys are actually fairly chill, and will mostly just ignore anything that comes near unless it starts harassing them. They like to snooze in groups, usually parents with their offspring. They mate for life like sleepy lizards do irl. So sweet!

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But I didn’t just draw this guy. I also drew my first blight infected creature.

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Known as “blighters” by the folks of Strahna, anything infected by the blight becomes a warped version of itself, or is merged horribly with another living organism. Some are much less dangerous than others, but all of them carry the “infection” and are therefore a threat. This specific blighter is particularly nasty, spewing hallucinogenic gas from its primary head as well as dripping an even more concentrated liquid form from both its maws. If breathed in it causes drowsiness, wild hallucinations and disorientation that lasts a couple hours or more. A bite causes permanent insanity and a high chance of contracting the blight yourself.

However, the likelihood of escape from this beast is so slim you really don’t have to worry about any of that, because you’d have carked it long before.

Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa), defensive display, family Scincidae, Australia

YOU ARE TRYING TO PUT CHEESE ON THIS BEEF?!

WELL, HAVE A BURGER THEN!!!

Western Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa), family Scincidae, endemic to western Australia

photograph by Reptiles4all

Eastern Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa aspera), family Scincidae, moved off a busy highway, Balranald, NSW, Australia

photograph by Mick Fullerton Wildlife

Eastern Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa asper), family Scincidae, South Australia

photograph by Benjamint444

Eastern Shingleback Skink (Tiliqua rugosa asper), family Scincidae, South Australia