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The "Spags🍝 and snags🌭" study is officially out in @journal_evo. W/ @Keogh_Lab & A. Skeels 🩵🫰for @StephenZozaya for this amazing photo of the Kimberley shallow-soil blindsnake Check it out at: academic.oup.com/evolut/article… summary in this series of post/thread 👇

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Another wonderful paper led by @jamesTstroud, I do miss watching these lizards in Miami

Dear fellow vertebrates, We have discovered some fascinating rules about vertebrate counts that you probably weren't aware of. (1/12)

Osteoderms, body armor in the skin, occur in many unrelated species, from tiny worm lizards to massive dinosaurs. But what are they actually good for? Is the term “body armor” even deserved? For an answer, check out our latest article hot of the press: doi.org/10.1111/jzo.13…

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9/ This is the final chapter of my PhD thesis! I'm very grateful for everyone that have enthusiastically supported me and the blindsnakes along the way! Now go out there and find some blindsnakes (they are harmless) 🤠

7/ and spaghetti like blindsnakes, like this Pilbara blindsnake, tend to occur in hotter + dryer areas with harder soil substrate. 📸 @StephenZozaya

6/ We found that sasaugey blindsnakes, like this robust blindsnake, tend to occur in areas that are cooler, wetter, with softer soil. 📸 @scott_macor That's a good snag.

5/ So we asked whether the morphological diversity is correlated with their current environmental niche? 🤔

4/ The cool thing is, despite eating the same thing and all living underground, there's surprising morphological and ecological diversity. Different species can be found in extremely different habitats like the driest deserts🏜️ to the wettest forests🌦️🌳.

3/ and they eat pupae and larvea of ants and termites. So those eye shields are good to have! Here's a great video of a blindsnake eating some pupae: x.com/i/status/14286…

2/ Blindsnakes aren't actualyl blind, they just have very reduced eyes covered by scales because they spend most of the time underground....

The "Spags🍝 and snags🌭" study is officially out in @journal_evo. W/ @Keogh_Lab & A. Skeels 🩵🫰for @StephenZozaya for this amazing photo of the Kimberley shallow-soil blindsnake Check it out at: academic.oup.com/evolut/article… summary in this series of post/thread 👇

1/ First, in 🇦🇺 spags = spaghetti and snags = saugages. I think they're pretty good descriptions of the variation in body shape/size of blindsnakes.