‘Mega Chonk’: palaeontologists find fossil from largest skink – the size of a human arm

Tiliqua frangens is about 1,000 times greater in size than most skinks and walked the Earth about 50,000 years ago, alongside other extinct megafauna

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A skink as big as a human arm has been comically dubbed the Mega Chonk after its bones were found alongside other blasts from the prehistoric past.

After years of careful work, researchers from Flinders University have formally described what is by far the largest skink discovered so far.