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Island life changed how Brazil's Noronha skink reproduces, but the lizard's strategy might be failing

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Island life changed how Brazil's Noronha skink reproduces, but the lizard's strategy might be failing
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Visitors to the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, located about 340 miles (545 kilometers) off the coast of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, soon notice a small lizard. Seemingly ubiquitous, it roams among rocks, trails and urbanized areas, approaching people and stealing food in plain sight when it can, and rarely flees.

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