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Lo and behold, "Skinkosaurus rex" (Coeranoscincus frontalis) Big, chunky, with dinosaur-like teeth. Even the limbless skink kingdom has its own superpredators (we think).

Our paper in Current Biology on the exquisitely preserved Oculudentavis naga, scanned at ANSTO Australian Synchrotron,confirms that the genus is a highly unusual lizard, and not a bird as first thought. The story below includes a link to the open access article: floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/new-sp…

Opinion | There’s no way temperatures are this high. It’s time for an audit. - The Washington Post apple.news/Ay-UVsMDVRJ6UC…

The rollout is a race and now we're all paying for Scott Morrison's failures.

While some scientists rushed to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, others sought a better understanding of the virus, hoping to predict where the next outbreak might be to better contain it. At UC Merced, this included testing the campus’s wastewater. bit.ly/3wsjJvF

By me for @thenewdailyau - Integrity is at the core of our expectations of our politicians thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2021/1…

A new paper led by SA Museum Honorary Researcher, Mark Hutchinson & Queensland Museum Kurilpa details the findings of two new species of snake-shaped burrowing skinks. bit.ly/3B4EPCq #NationalReptileAwarenessDay

Our No. 10 most talked about paper this year - Plicidentine and the repeated origins of snake venom fangs: ow.ly/SRy850Hcpm6 Aaron LeBlanc @dropanagio Silke Cleuren Alistair Evans Michael S. Y. Lee (biologist) #ProcB #OpenAccess #evolution

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Interested in limb reduction in skinks? In his second PhD paper, Marco Camaiti (Dr Marco Camaiti) has collated a database on the limb reduction in the world's skinks. Alistair Evans Mark Hutchinson Shai Meiri Rodolfo Anderson Alex Slavenko School of Biological Sciences, Monash Biogeography.News onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

Museum Resource 🌈🐍 Colorful 3D #SnakeSunday Check out this olive sea snake skull, Aipysurus laevis, with bones colored and labelled on Sketchfab: sketchfab.com/3d-models/oliv… #oVertTCN 3D model by @jaimiAgray

If only it existed! Sandy Horne Shayne Calliss

Bohemian rhapsody for postdocs: Is this a real job? Or more like a PhD? Caught in short contracts No chance of stability Open your eyes Look up to PIs and see I'm just a postdoc I get no sympathy Because I'm easy come, easy go Stress is high Pay is low

Meet Dr Dan Edwards, Curator of Terrestrial Vertebrates | Thurs 5.30pm eventbrite.com.au/e/talk-how-spe… Pic: I Zhukova #magntscience #science #naturalscience

When science news isn't quite right (a thread) First, I want to say that these Bush Blitz surveys are fantastic. They put scientists into understudied areas, new species are uncovered, biodiversity is better understood. Congrats to all! BUT! ... abc.net.au/news/2023-02-1…