The Great Plains skink (Plestiodon [Eumeces] obsoletus) is one of eight species of skinks that live in Texas, and it has the largest area of distribution. This skink occurs throughout the western ...

A sample of 259 food records with 683 identified items was used to investigate the food habits of E. obsoletus. Most of the diet consists of a relatively small number of prey groups, but other groups, ...

In lizards and snakes the egg is a vulnerable stage in the life cycle with limitations that must often restrict geographic range or local occurrence of a species. Eggs of the rat snake, racer, ...