It has been an absolute pleasure working with the Duduroa Dhargal Aboriginal Corporation over the past couple of years on their Reading Healing Project youtu.be/zIXgLsyt4k8 Gulbali Institute Charles Sturt Uni Media

Very excited to share a huge project that's been a long time in the making. Interested in squamate macroevolution? Curious about how snakes fit into the broader ecological context of squamates? Looking for a new squamate phylogeny? Check out our new work: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Causus rhombeatus - Rhombic Night Adder feeding on a Red Toad. From Crestholme, KwaZulu-Natal. tyroneping.co.za/snakes-souther…

I was riding my motorbike and I thought I saw a dead snake on the side of theroad. I generally don't pass up free stuff. Don't judge we're all human.

Anyway, I stopped to collect my snake and it turned out to be a huge blue iridescent earthworm. It was not dead.

It was the…

A field ecology job available at Calperum Station in SA. Come and make a difference working on landscape-scale restoration projects in the beautiful Murray mallee!

It’s amazing how quickly lizards grow. My baby blue-tongues have doubled in size over the past three weeks.

‘The river has been destroyed’: expert says agriculture has overshadowed science in the Murray-Darling Basin | Murray-Darling Basin | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…

Another IUCN Snake Specialist Group members highlight! Check out what Fauna & Flora gets up to 👇!

Extinction risk of the world’s freshwater mammals. First PhD chapter by Emmalie Sanders conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Big news. Prof Shine etal have scientifically proven the 100s of millions of $ (just in 1 region) saved by farmers choosing to keep mice-eating snakes around rather than killing the helpful snakes, contrasted w/ the very small risk of snakebite for farmers tinyurl.com/yp87xksb

In the latest #AustralEcology #BookReview , Damian Michael: 'Field guide to the reptiles of Northern Territory is a true gem for anyone enthusiastic about reptiles' 🐍🦎
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Here’s a great little education article about snakes 🥰

I don’t always feel that we deserve to share a landscape with these ancient and graceful icons of this continent, but seeing that we do for now, let’s treasure and make room for them a bit more. It’s really not that difficult. 🫲🏼🐍🐍🐍🐍🫱🏼 #WildOz

An unexpected find on the block today - woodland blind snake - Anilios proximus #wildoz

New bird for the block! Bit of a surprise to have a Baillon’s crake fly into my shed and join me on the couch last night. After a quick health check I relocated it into the reeds around my frog pond. #wildoz

I’ve been spruiking snake conservation for 25 years. Would be so much easier to convince people to stop harming them if they looked like this.

Eureka!!! We built a bunch of rock piles scattered around our block in the hope that they would provide habitat for any of the local reptiles.
This one is getting a vote of confidence from one of the sand monitors (Varanus gouldii) that live here🦎
#Gnurlunga #YamajiCountry

To all snake educators around the world...I have an opportunity for you! See flyer 👇🤓

We’ve recorded 13 reptile species on a Cumberland Plains Woodland environmental offset reserve this past week. Weasel Skink was a nice find.