Siculomaltese lizard (SciiFii)

The Siculomaltese lizard (Lacerta siculomelitensis) is a species of lizard of the Lacerta genus that originally lived in what is now Sicily and Malta during the Pleistocene and early Holocene and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced to both Sicily and Malta to help boost biodiversity. The Siculomaltese lizard is also one of the largest lizards of its genus, with the average length of around 75 centimeters (2.4 feet) long, making it nearly about the size of an Australian blue-tongued skink. The Siculomaltese lizard lives on the ground and in low, dense vegetation and likes to bask in the sun, early and late in the day. It feeds mainly on insects and other small invertebrates but it also sometimes takes fruit, birds eggs, fledglings, small lizards and even mice. In spring, the female lays six to twenty eggs which hatch in two to four months. Newly hatched juveniles are pale brown with a snout-to-vent length of 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in). They become mature the following year by which time they will have doubled in size. The conservation status of the Siculomaltese lizard is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts and the Siculomaltese lizard's tolerance to most of the human activities (possibly due to genetic engineering due to the fact that the original Siculomaltese lizards were probably not adaptable), allowing the modern Siculomaltese lizards to adapt to life in the cities and suburbs.
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