Surprise Easter eggs

Staff at the Oceanarium in Bournemouth were ecstatic to find 14 eggs on Easter Sunday, laid by the attraction’s only female spiny tailed lizard.

While completing their routine daily checks, keepers found the lizard eggs and quickly moved them into quarantine to be incubated.

Set to hatch in June, the eggs are the latest to be laid since the first spiny-tailed lizard eggs were discovered at the attraction this time last year.

Oliver Buttling, Group Curator of the Oceanarium, said, “It was a great surprise to find the lizard eggs and extremely apt that they were laid on Easter Sunday.

“We have been running a captive breeding programme with our spiny tailed lizards for a while now. Last Easter we saw the first-ever eggs to be laid at the attraction and just one year later are now delighted to be caring for 14.”