Huge congratulations to my dear friend and colleague Jane Melville on the publication of her book, For Her Love of Birds! I've heard wonderful things about it from everyone who's read it. I'm so happy for you and so proud of you — you've absolutely earned this.

Including these glass lizards, several distantly related ‘worm lizards’ have skin bone plates covering their bodies. We just found that these evolved independently. For the full story: doi.org/10.64628/AA.... CT data provided by Sydney Decker (2025, CMC 27120, OSUM R685) via MorphoSource.

Reptile body armour has a wild back story. Find out here: doi.org/10.64628/AA....

Lizards in chain mail: reconstructing the enigmatic past of dermal armour in squamate reptiles url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Our new paper is out! By reconstructing 320 million years of reptile body armour evolution, we settled a century-old debate. Along the way, we found that monitor lizards broke Dollo’s Law in an unparalleled comeback. Check out our article in The Conversation for more: doi.org/10.64628/AA....

This is it, folks! Your one and only Halloween decoration for the year. It is the creepiest thing I have seen in a while. Watch it in full, with sound on. You won’t regret it. What makes it even better? Every frame is volume-rendered from real scientific CT scans. youtu.be/L_D_iCex16o?...

It was the greatest of all honours to be featured as Museums Victoria's flagship speaker at the Royal Society of Victoria's launch event for National Science Week. Many thanks to the organisers and the wonderful audience.

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we looked beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging techniques – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo