25 years ago: Rare lizard lays eggs at KU museum

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 8, 1989:

The first female broadhead skink ever found in Kansas had laid eight eggs this week. Belinda Sue, who was residing at Kansas University’s Museum of Natural History, had been suspected of being pregnant when she was captured and brought to the museum on May 30. The eggs were being kept in a humid environment and were expected to take up to five weeks to hatch. “The mother and the little white blobs are doing fine,” reported museum worker Joe Collins. “The eggs are misshaped, wrinkled and discolored. If you saw these eggs in a grocery store, you wouldn’t buy them.” He hastened to add, however, that the half-inch objects were normal for skink eggs. Skinks, a type of lizard, were on the Kansas threatened species list. Collins said the museum would continue to hold the mother and future baby skinks for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, who would eventually decide their fate.