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Lerista edwardsae are objectively the best Lerista ✅ Endemic to SA ✅ Snazzy colour scheme ✅ Superior (0,2) limb arrangement ✅ Staunch

A Geometric Sea Snake (Hydrophis czeblukovi) from our recent trip to NW Western Australia, found at the surface in water approximately 60m deep. One of only a handful recorded due to their remote habitat.

Great #AMSA22 talk by Shannon Coppersmith on wrestling wild sea snakes 🐍 to fill critical #marine conservation knowledge gaps. Exciting research Uni of Adelaide

Fun day out at Innes National Park yesterday, featuring a Lined Worm-lizard (Aprasia striolata), Bight Heath Dragon (Ctenophorus chapmani), Peninsula Brown Snake (Pseudonaja inframacula) and a Heath Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi)

A Prong-snouted Blind Snake (Anilios bituberculatus). These are secretive ant larvae eaters that are rarely seen, but in the right conditions can be spectacularly abundant. Ardrossan, SA.

A South Coast Gecko (Diplodactylus calcicolus), a denizen of cool windswept coastlines of Southern Australia. Innes NP, SA.

Sea snakes! Emily Jackson presents her research on “The natural history and stranding of the yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus), along the South African coastline”Very interesting that most strandings observed in her study were gravid females! 🌊 🐍

Lizard lovers, travelers, grey nomads, & sandgropers, lend me your ears: If you’re in Western Australia and come across a dead thorny devil, we’d love to have it as part of our genetic assessment of the species across its range. *Especially* if it’s from btwn Perth and Shark Bay.

Well, I finally submitted my PhD thesis

The calm before the storm ⛈️ We’re looking for sea snakes in the Kimberley Marine Park - a major sampling gap and the bridge between western and eastern populations 🌊 🐍 James Nankivell @VinayUdyawer

Incredibly excited to announce I will be starting my own research group at the University of Wollongong UOW next month! If you would like to join as a student or Postdoc keep reading. (1/2)

Well done James Nankivell!! Brilliant final PhD talk and congratulations on the great acknowledgement from the University for a great thesis 🥳

Very excited that one of my PhD chapters was published yesterday (On my birthday no less!) Introducing Demansia cyanochasma, a stunning whip snake from the central deserts of Australia. Full publication: mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

Evolution of vision: as sea snakes moved from low-light to higher light environments, they re-acquired color vision by duplication of opsin genes. Isaac Rossetto @EvolEyes Uni of Adelaide GBE (Genome Biology and Evolution) paper: bit.ly/44BnkZI

It was great to meet so many local sea snake enthusiasts at the Exmouth Research Lab lab open day on the weekend! 🐍🌊 Uni of Adelaide scientists enjoyed busting some common sea snake myths, as they introduced our community to 4 species of snakes found in the Exmouth Gulf.

Cool encounter watching these two Mulga Snakes battle it out in Cape Range National Park

Some brand new #skinks, hot off the presses! Together with Stephen Richards (South Australian Museum), Stephen Donnellan (South Australian Museum), Allen Allison (Bishop Museum), and Paul Oliver (Griffith University and Queensland Museum Kurilpa) we just described two spectacular skinks from #PNG 🇵🇬 (1/n)

Over the last 2 days I've done quite a few interviews/stories about 8 new Pacific Hylaeus bees we described. I think that MOST bee descriptions in Australia over the last decade have been described at the South Australian Museum. That's under threat... t.ly/g0G4q 1/4