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Researchers have found an armoured fossil skink 1,000 times heavier than the ones in your garden. Its closest living relative is the shingleback lizard.
Detailed field notes can help researchers track down rare species.
Spiny-tailed skinks, also known as meelyu, are culturally significant to the Badimia people in Western Australia. But habitat degradation and mining have put them at threat of extinction.
Species distribution data – or a lack thereof – can have a major bearing on how a country’s Key Biodiversity Areas and protected areas are designated.
Some skinks have been known to kill their babies – but one remarkable species goes to any lengths to save them.
The Kaputar rock skink is thought to have have one of the smallest ranges of any reptile in New South Wales – at the summit of a single extinct volcano, Mount Kaputar.
The three-toed skink can give birth to live young and lay eggs in the same pregnancy. What can this little critter teach us about the evolution of live birth?
Current environment laws are manifestly failing Australian animals.
The evolution of live birth from egg-laying is no mean feat. Now new research reports on the first known example where both eggs and a live birth come from the same lizard pregnancy.
Have a look in your garden - you might be surprised at some of the native animals that thrive there when the weather’s hot.
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Senior Lecturer, Evolutionary Biology, University of Sydney
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Director of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, University of Gothenburg
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Post-doc, University of Copenhagen
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Professor in Zoology, James Cook University
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Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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