I’ve recently been awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research grant from the Ecological Society of Australia, and a research grant from the Australian Society of Herpetologists. These grants will help fuel my research on the six-toothed rainbow skink (Carlia Sexdentata). Big thanks to both societies!

These late-term Austrelaps superbus (lowland copperhead) embryos were dissected from a female found in February. In this species, most births occur in February, so these guys were likely just a few weeks from birth.

I love doing dissections as they give us a rare glimpse into life before birth.

Spotted this absolute stunner Western Blue-tongue (Tiliqua occipitalis) near Orroroo, SA! I was hauling a caravan uphill when this chunky bugger decided to make a road crossing. Managed to pull over safely and give him a helping hand off the road and back to safety.

Here’s every mangrove snake occurring in the NT. Found within about 30 minutes of each other during a recent slide around in the Darwin mangroves.

-Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)

-Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)

-Cerberus australis (Australian Bockadam)

Here’s a common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus) licking its eye clean in Little Desert last night. Legless lizards are awesome.

I’ve finally gotten around to analyzing the data from my long-term side project on lowland copperhead biology and human-snake conflict.

If you’re attending the #ESAus2024 conference, come watch me talk about it on Monday 9th (tomorrow) at 4pm in room 103 (Methods in Ecology 2).

I love making these diagrams that show the distribution of an entire genus in a single map. Note the little population of trilineatus on the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula.

Should I do the Ctenotus genus next?

Great turnout last night at Cardigan Village for my presentation on Ballarat snakes and the findings of our snake research. Thanks to the Upper Mount Emu Landcare Network for hosting the event.

Get in touch if you’d like me to give similar educational presentations for your landcare group.

The Aprasia genus is a group of small, slender, worm-like lizards in the Pygopodidae (flap-footed lizard) family, which shares a common evolutionary ancestor with geckos. They are only found in Australia, where there are 14 species.

Here is every species occurring in the state of Victoria.