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Alligator Lizards lay eggs underground. When the hatchlings hatch, they crawl up.

So is the process of incubation against what they are naturally doing?

We can bury the eggs too right?
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They don't lay them underground - not very deep anyway. They make nests and lay them under objects.

I've never found a wild a clutch, but it isn't too uncommon to find them under objects (like logs and rocks).
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6.8 L. getula californiae - 11 eggs (Cal. King)
1.2 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 L. getula floridana (Brooksi)
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0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
3.3 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - 14 eggs (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

Actually Funky,

I found a clutch when I was a teenager about 20 years ago. My mom has a huge backyard with vegetation back there and she were doing her gardening work. She stumble on to a really aggressive mother and freaked my mom out and so she asked me to come out and remove it. I tried to scare it away but all it does was hiss at me. No matter how close I get, it continues to hiss, even when i pour water on it. I was a kid and did not know. Later, I moved into a container. My mom continue her garden work and as she digs, she saw the eggs. We felt bad but did not know what to do so we moved all of them to one location and gave it to animal control. The eggs are white.
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