Damian Lettoof

Anyone who's published on an Australian reptile. Check Greer's phenomenal Encyclopedia preprint, check your study species and if you have information to add email the papers to him. Lets make this as comprehensive as possible! researchgate.net/publication/34…

@hatmanswife ig? 🙏🙏

@vivosaur There’s been a surge in the last couple of weeks it is growing!

@vivosaur It’s time for blue sky.

In today’s herping highlight I bring you an iddy biddy banded eastern brown snake. This individual is likely to be 8-10 months old and will eventually loose its pattern as it matures #wildoz

@evornithology @ASNAmNat Awesome thanks for the clarification!

@LettsGetSnakes @ASNAmNat And then, yes, some red/black males will molt into brown for the non-breeding season, although the older males can molt from red/black to red/black

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Ever since the OG, Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been puzzled by the potential benefits females get by choosing "attractive" males. Well, good news Chuck, my grad school buddy Doug Barron and I figured it out today in @ASNAmNat! 😜 🧵 1/8

This study goes way back to our grad school days working on Red-backed Fairywrens in Australia. Males come in two flavors: ornamented red/black and female-like brown. Females love the ornamented males but we never really knew why... UNTIL NOW! 2/8

Here’s an awesome snake for #ReptileAwarenessDay, my first American pit viper the broad-banded copperhead 😍

🚨 New paper! 🚨 ~100 mya two-toed theropod trackway is first indirect record of flap-running in a non-avian dinosaur (flapping to run quicker). Read more @PNASNews: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Brought to life by @JCsotonyi #ADececchi #KSKim #MLockley #HLarsson @TomHoltzPaleo #JFarlow #theropodtuesday #trackway #dinosaurs #flightorigins @CUHKofficial @CUHKScience

Awesome to see more snake work on PFAS happening! Finding similar patterns to my tiger snake work #setac2024

@herphighlights Thank god someone made the map! And I’m glad it was you.

Big news! The King Cobra taxonomy has been revised: buff.ly/3A7DO26. We will of course be chatting about the changes in an upcoming Species of the Bi-week segment. To whet your appetite, here is a new King Cobra species map. Massive congrats to the authors.

𝗧𝗮𝗱𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱! It's Friday, and you know how we do it! Our #photographerfeature is 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀' image of tadpoles, which won the @NHM_London #wildlifephotographeroftheyear

First North American herp! A Texas spiny lizard I found in a park down the road from my hotel 🎉

As I’m about to take off to USA and attend the #SETAC conference I thought it fitting to finally read this classic, the book that kicked ecotoxicology into action! Catch ya soon Texas 🫡

JOB ALERT. Come and work with the @CSIRO & @BiolSci_UWA as a quantitative field ecologist. A 2 year postdoc based in Perth working across the Kimberley & Pilbara on developing biocontrol for an invasive vine. Please RT! external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/518340/…

Another productive meeting the other day with the Oceania regional chapter of the IUCN Snake Specialist Group! Including bringing expert minds together to try and solve some bewildering mysteries uncovered in recent research w/in the group relating to snake conservation in Oz.

A fun project finally published! We have genomic work coming out for some #snakes, but our survey work served as great data on its own for a fun paper on microhabitat and species distributions! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@BBM_Wong If I was to do it again I would’ve pursued joining your dream team!

I am the luckiest academic in the whole wide world. Some of the many past and present students and postdocs all together at #ISBE2024 🥹

Meet Pugh’s Mountain Frog (Philoria pughi) 🐸 Breeding from spring to summer, this little frog can be heard calling in the Gibraltar Range and Washpool National Park in far northern NSW. If you're in their area, listen out for their low-pitched 'orrk' call. 📷: Stephen Mahony

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