Meanwhile in Australia, the lady of the laundry has found herself a meal and a half 🕷️ redback spider #Latrodectus #hasselti and southern three-toed earless skink #Hemiergis #decresiensis

It’s been a day of big data 📈 great to catch up with everyone, share our story and learn about the latest developments in bio collection management at the SA OpenSpecimen community meet.

Flinders 3D Digital Data Workshop happening THIS THURSDAY! Please ensure you register your (free) attendance if you wish to join us for an informal dat of 3D data discussions (catch that laster beam!)

Crystal The Cavern Spirit Plays with Laser

ALT: Crystal The Cavern Spirit Plays with Laser

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Dr Alice Clement@draliceclement.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For those in Adelaide who work with digital 3D data, I'm organising an informal workshop for us to share insights on our methods, challenges and ideas at the "Flinders University 3D Data Software, Analysis and Visualisation Workshop" on Sep 24th Register here: events.humanitix.com/flinders-uni...

I recently toured the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection - what a treat! Their collection includes fixed specimens, tissue samples, photos, X-rays, CT scans and dried specimens 🐟🐠🦈

New in @science.org ...since our first discoveries of early tetrapods, they have been thought of as "amphibians" characterized by aquatic larvae. But is this true? For the first time, we report exceptional fossils of stem tetrapod babies that upend this paradigm. 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition

Modern amphibians are characterized by an aquatic larval stage that ends abruptly with a period of widespread tissue remodeling (metamorphosis) upon transition to terrestrial adulthood. A transient la...

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🧠 At long last... our paper "Ethmosphenoid #endocasts elucidate evolutionary #brain divergences and interrelationships of stem tetrapods (Sarcopterygii, #Tetrapodomorpha)" has been published, today in Papers in Palaentology @thepalass.bsky.social - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ethmosphenoid endocasts elucidate evolutionary brain divergences and interrelationships of stem tetrapods (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha)

Nearly half of all living vertebrate diversity can be traced back to a single lineage of lobe-finned fishes (piscine sarcopterygians) that radiated during the Palaeozoic Era. In recent years, the phy...

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The Genomics Our Way – Community Yarns podcast series brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders, community members, researchers and health professionals to yarn about genomics. One new release every week for the next 6 weeks! indigenousgenomics.com.au/resources/co...

Community Yarns - ALIGN

ALIGN is an Indigenous-led alliance, supported by dedicated non-Indigenous allies. We provide a range of resources for Community, Researchers and Health Professionals.

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This prehistoric fish may explain how animals first walked on Earth

This prehistoric fish may explain how animals first walked on Earth

Scientists have peered inside the skull of a 380-million-year-old Antarctic fish that was closely related to the first animals to walk on land, revealing surprising clues about how life began its…

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CONGRATULATIONS to Prof John Long on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences! So well deserved! science.org.au/news-events/... #bigwiginthehouse

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Happy 100th to the best in the business 🎉

Kohralepis comes to life! Reconstruction by our very talented Honours student, Thomas Turner. news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2026/04...

Fresh eyes on Gondwana fish head

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the water to live on land […]

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It's out! doi.org/10.3389/fevo... Koharalepis was a large Devonian predatory fish collected in Antarctica. We found its braincase was similar to the fishes straddling the vertebrate water-to-land transition, and evidence of adaptations to life near the water's surface. Painting by Thomas Turner.

Flinders Uni 3rd year #palaeontology students have had a great time working at the original #Canowindra Age of Fishes #fossil site this week! Huge thanks to David and Aleysha for having us out there! 🦴 🐟 @flindersuniversity.bsky.social

Congratulations to Flinders PhD student Corinne @corinnemensforth.bsky.social and team on the latest paper describing new anatomical detail from the enigmatic #Devonian tetrapod-like fish, #Koharalepis from #Antarctica, revealed using #neutrons! Pew pew! www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Frontiers | New data on the sarcopterygian Koharalepis jarviki (Tetrapodomorpha; Canowindridae) from the Late Devonian of Antarctica, revealed via synchrotron and neutron tomography

IntroductionThe ‘osteolepiforms’ are an extinct order of lobe-finned fishes that had a cosmopolitan distribution, which are often considered for their proxim...

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Indigenous and working in the Natural Sciences? Come and join us at Flinders University! www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Associate Lecturer/Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences (Indigenous Identified) - Adelaide, Australia job with FLINDERS UNIVERSITY | 408791

Flinders University is seeking motivated and innovative Associate Lecturer, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer to join our Natural Sciences team ...

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Lets talk about fish (a podcast), with Michael Mills www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-bz...

Hope all the folks at #ISELV have a fantastic meeting this week 🦴 I’m very happy for the live feed, big thanks and best fishes to the @iselv18.bsky.social organisers 🐟

Have a great holiday break folks

I'm thrilled to share the news that the original Tiktaalik fossils, including the Type Specimen itself, will be on display in Ottawa starting December 19! Check them out. nature.ca/en/visit-us/... 🧪

Life onto Land: The Devonian - Canadian Museum of Nature

Special exhibition: visit Tiktaalik and other Devonian fossils of fishes from the Canadian Arctic, at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa.

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I did a line drawing of the coelacanth at the American Museum of Natural history @amnh.org a few days ago. This morning I colored in that drawing with charcoal colored pencils. #SundayFishSketch #AMNH

If you've got a hankering for some coelacanth cookies (and with #Fishmas right around the corner, who doesn't?) then you're in luck My coelacanth cookie cutter is now available to download & 3D print sketchfab.com/3d-models/co...

Coelacanth cookie cutter - Download Free 3D model by Paleontologizing

Coelacanths are a group of fossil fishes with strange, limb-like fins and an unusual diphycercal tail. Although well known to paleontologists, coelacanths disappear from the fossil record toward the ...

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I’m having a blast catching up with everyone at CAVEPS, and stoked to share some fishy results 📷 @draliceclement.bsky.social

Flinders Fishy Folk had some great posters at CAVEPS

It’s the first day of the CAVEPS Conference of Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, hosted by Flinders Uni on Kaurna Yerta 🎉

The jacaranda is blooming and the CAVEPS beers are here 💜 Must be time for CAVEPS 2025 to begin! Can’t wait to see more than 180 delegates descend on Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide this week!

This Mythbusters x lobe fin fish content is unexpected and brilliant: youtu.be/U68FbDkmsjI?...

This Coelacanth's Got Quite a Story!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.

How a song cycle led scientists to hidden dinosaur tracks

From dinosaur footprints to volcanic eruptions, First Nations knowledge is helping to drive modern science.

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…and Australian Museum again including a slab from Canowindra 🤩

Flying visit to Sydney/Gadigal country pt 2 from the Australian Museum: more lobe-fins!