Had a #podcast chat with the illustrious Michael Mills of HeapsGood and talked #fossil #kangaroos , have a listen here!

As a #kangaroo #palaeontologist and comic artist it is very cool and fun to see our research and Tim Ziegler 's beaut new Sthen skeleton show up in a comic by Firstdog Onthemoon . What a frickin great day.

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The first episode of Season 3 the Palaeo Jam podcast is out, and features a fascinating conversation with HeapsGood and Isaac Kerr of Flinders Palaeontology about recently published research on the giant kangaroos know as Protemnodon.

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You can read Isaac Kerr's #epic monograph with Flinders University colleagues Aaron Camens, Jacob van Zoelen, Trevor Worthy & Gavin Prideaux here: mapress.com/mt/article/vie…

#palaeontology #paleontology #kangaroo #macropod #marsupial #taxonomy

Check out this ABC Australia interview with Flinders University palaeontology's Isaac Kerr on his PhD research about the extinct #kangaroo genus 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛.

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#palaeontology #paleontology Flinders UniversityUniNews

And our article with The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand is out now too! A bit more about the #fossil -y tale of Protemnodon. There's a bit of a story in there.

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#kangaroos #australia #megafauna #palaeontology

Here is our great big monograph on #fossil #megafaunal #kangaroos of genus #Protemnodon ! Six years in the making. We recognise 7 species, 3 newly named, with diversity of locomotor mode. Thanks to everyone that got this over the line ❤️

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Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

CT sssssscanning some sssnakes today at Tonsley CT Flinders Sc & Eng 🐍🩻 #CTscanning #squamates

D. Rex Mitchell shows that the littlest rock wallabies pack a punch when it comes to biting hard. We call it the 'Little Wallaby Syndrome'. Rock wallabies are awesome to study skull adaptation because they are a recent radiation yet found across Australia. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Fresh ink!

We show that size-correlated shape variation can contain information relating to skull function

Something to consider before removing size variation to look at size-independent residuals for functional patterns

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A beautiful day for dodging nudists at Maslin Beach, AND learning about #stratigraphy & #palaeontology Flinders Palaeontology

New paper out today with many thanks to Alcheringa Australasian Palaeontologists
We had another look at a little old #fossil #kangaroo from #Pliocene #PapuaNewGuinea and now it shares a genus with central #Australian #Miocene roo Dorcopsoides fossilis. Open access!

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💥RSSA meetings are back for 2024!

Our first speaker is Dr Jacqueline Nguyen (Flinders University & Australian Museum) on 'Australia’s key role in our understanding of songbird evolution'🐦🎼

Join us online OR in person 6:30-7:30 ACST March Thurs 14th. More info soon.

Jack O’Connor of Evans EvoMorph Lab has been creating some striking skeletal reconstructions & animations of extinct Australian megafauna using VAMP_Palaeo scans. See Thylacoleo here: sketchfab.com/3d-models/thyl…

VAMP_Palaeo specimens out in the world being fabulous. If you want to see more 3D scans and of fossil lungfish (& much more besides) head to sites.flinders.edu.au/vamp/ 👀

The good folk at Museums Victoria catch up with Flinders University Professor Emeritus Rod Wells to burrow down deep into wombat mythology. Could they really outpace Usain Bolt?

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This fish was named in honour of eminent fish palaeontologist Prof Min Zhu of IVPP IVPP Early Vertebrates for his immense contributions to the field.

Well done to lead author & artist Brian Choo, and co-authors Tim Holland, Benedict King, Tom Challands, Gavin Young & John Long.

This project realistically started decades ago with bits and pieces of this fish collected by Gavin Young, but was bolstered by the discovery of the first complete specimen during Flinders Palaeontology fieldwork in 2016 on Luritja/Arrente country in the Northern Territory.

New paper day! 🆕 'A new stem-tetrapod fish from
the Middle–Late Devonian of central Australia' out today in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology introducing *Harajicadectes zhumini* to the world... tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…