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Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social and led by @tillramm.bsky.social! We integrated population genomics, fossils, SDMs, and micro-CT scanning to understand how climate change has influenced extinctions and extant genetic diversity in the threatened Australian mountain dragon #ozherps #genomics
Climate change predicts Quaternary extinctions and extant genetic diversity in a threatened Australian lizard
Ramm et al. show that Quaternary climate change predicts local extinctions and intraspecific differences in genetic diversity of the threatened Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis). Their data suggest...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
jackdashby.bsky.social
This Rosenberg's monitor is giving some serious side-eye down on the south coast of #WesternAustralia.
#OzHerps #lizards
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
jackdashby.bsky.social
Q: What do you call a skink that lives among boulders in the cool mountainous parts of #Tasmania?
A: The boulder cool-skink! 🦎
#fieldwork #herping #lizards #OzHerps #reptiles
A bronze-black lizard with pale flecks sits on a small grey rock
June 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
jackdashby.bsky.social
REPTILE FAIL!
South Australia has some truly gorgeous #lizards (and some truly gorgeous wines), so I'm not sure why the species on this wine is an Arabian spiny-tailed lizard! 🧐 🦎 🍷 #TaxonomyFail #WildOz #OzHerps
A bottle of Kooliburra reisling wine from Clare Valley, Australia, but with a photo of an Arabian spiny-tailed lizard
May 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM