skink

Price: Battered calamari PS5.95; Cullen skink PS5.50; sticky chicken PS11.25; lasagne PS11.25; Shetland scallops PS17.95; pavlova PS5.95; sticky toffee pudding PS6.25; soft drinks PS7.80 Total: PS71.90 Food: Atmosphere: Service: Total: 11/15

The cullen skink was the best I tasted in a week on the island and the scallops, cooked in shells, were deliciously meaty.

While at the hotel try the area's cullen skink soup (essentially haddock, potato and onion).

Rich, creamy and full of flavour, the key to a warming bowl of traditional Cullen Skink is deliciously smoky haddock, sourced from Scotland's choppy North Sea.

Breed: Berber Skink. Owner: Jaime Marc Watts, 18, Barry.

The owners of xyzReptiles have been working hard to bring rare new lizard species to the market and have also been making sure that the proper lighting and heating requirements are met for every little baby blue tongue skink that will be housed at their Miami facility.

They found "the back of the northern blue-tongue skink's tongue is much more UV-intense and luminous than the front." This feature was useful as a defense against main predators, such as birds, snakes, and monitor lizards. 

The evening started with a glass of bubbles followed by a delicious supper of Cullen Skink, Scotch Broth, trifle, Cranachan and biscuits and cheese.

wales The first Andean bear ever to be born in mainland Britain was welcomed, as well as the inaugural hatching of a Bermuda skink anywhere in the world outside of Bermuda.

At the opening, Mr Clarke got to grips with his anguine namesake Simon the skink as well as speaking to students and staff.

Now widely available across Scotland, it originated in Aberdeenshire in the late 1800s - a place of fish and cattle The Cullen Skink World Championships take place every November in Cullen itself, a small fishing harbour near Pennan - the village which starred in Bill Forsyth's Local Hero.