Snoop Dogg narrating this baby iguana chase from “planet earth” is my new favorite video on the internet

The Lizard Lab CommBank Matildas FAI Women FIFA Women's World Cup triple j Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Madeleine H Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈, PhD Ben Ashton This is one very talented lizard.

Julia is an amazing advisor and mentor and runs a vibrant lab. This is an opportunity not to be missed!

This paper number 2 from Putter's PhD work - I'm biased but I think this is very cool stuff. And hot stuff too.

Sleepy lizard on the money!!!

How has live birth evolved when there are thermal mismatches between mothers and their offspring? Our new paper Evolution Letters explores the role of behavioural plasticity in facilitating shifts in reproductive mode 🐍🦎 academic.oup.com/evlett/advance…

Consider yourself frog-curious? 🐸 Think Australia is cool? 🇦🇺 Not sick of threads? 🧵 Let me tell you a little of what we’ve learned from looking at Australian frog genetics and reconstructing their history. 1/

Today at Invertebrates Australia we're launching #NoSpraySpring! We know #invertebrates are vital for healthy ecosystems; they're also fascinating! If you agree, join us in avoiding insecticide sprays to protect the good bugs this spring

Well done Shane! Outstanding work!

Hopefully not the last blindsnakes on journal covers 😆 Thanks Stephen Zozaya for this wonderful Torres Strait blindsnake. One of few blindsnake species found on both Australia and Papua New Guinea

Rachel Wong from the Lizard Lab gave a great talk about her research on quantity discrimination in Eastern Water Skinks. Can lizards count? Watch this space! Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences #lizard

The Lizard Lab's Rachel Wong doing some great outreach, expertly explaining her research on quantity discrimination in lizards. Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences #lizard

Can sleepy lizards (aka shingleback skinks) count? Check out our new paper on quantity discrimination in Behavioral Ecology: academic.oup.com/beheco/advance… Birgit Szabo 🦎🐸🏳️‍🌈, PhD Madeleine H Ben Ashton Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Behavioral Ecology Behav Ecol Papers Mike Gardner

Check out an unbelievable video of a Gould's monitor gobbling down 5 zebra finch chicks at Fowler's Gap in arid western New South Wales, Australia. Video by @MarcNaguib & Hugo Loning is on @simongriffith4 YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=HkyPFZ… Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences #lizard #predation

Have just learnt Animal Cognition will be open access in 2024-Springer announced this with great excitement! But check the small print "The 2024 APC for Animal Cognition will be EUR 2690.00/ USD 3390.00/ GBP 2290.00." I'll publish elsewhere. Animal Cognition Springer

The lab gave amazing talks at the ASH conference in Townsville and congrats Bethan Govier for award-winning speed talk! Well done Jai Lake, Kathy Potter, Levi Brown Daniel Hoops Steph Deering! Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences

Our new paper just out in Journal of Experimental Biology on how variation in mitochondrial function may help us explain the 'lek paradox'. Lead by the wonderful Ondi Crino with Michael Jennions and Megan. Check it out: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.24…

The South Australian Museum collections provide time-stamped evidence of how species respond to environmental change, truly invaluable to science and society, but will be all tossed away by short-sighted thinking. Shame! science.org/content/articl…

Critically endangered northern corroboree frogs spotted in Namadgi National Park for the first time in five years - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

High nest failure in a zebra finch population and persistent nest predation by a monitor lizard - Naguib - 2024 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… @MarcNaguib Simon Griffith