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SUMMARY:Kailah Thorn - One skink\, two skink\, big skink\, blue skink – A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles
DESCRIPTION:Kailah is the WA Museum Collections Manager for Herpetology and crawls through Western Australian caves searching for recently extinct reptiles. She specialises in Australian reptile fossils that are less than 66 million years old (from the Cenozoic) and has described Australia’s oldest skink (Proegernia mikebulli)\, deciphered when the first true bluetongue lizard evolved\, and assembled the largest skink on earth: Tiliqua frangens. \nKailah Thorn in Horseshoe Cave\nFossils from across the country can help us answer big questions and even reveal spiky surprises — like a bobtail lizard as long as your arm\, weighing 1\,000 times more than a garden skink\, and covered in spiked\, armoured plating! Fossils extend our expectations of what animals look like\, where they live\, where they’ve come from and what might have brought about their extinction. This talk will dive deep into the fossil history of Australia’s most diverse vertebrate family\, Scincidae: when did they get here and what’s happened to them since? \nThere will be a focus talk on Tasmanian flora and fauna from Tanya Marwood.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/kailah-thorn-skinks-2/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jolanda Keeble":MAILTO:jmkeeble@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Xanthorrhoea and Kingia: iconic grasstrees
DESCRIPTION:What Xanthorrhea is that? Or is it a Kingia?\n\nBack in 2020\, presenters Geoff and Linda\, along with other Western Botanical ecological consultancy staff\, noticed significant variation in Xanthorrhoea (Grasstrees) while undertaking surveys in the eastern wheatbelt.  When they investigated Xanthorrhoea nana\, they found three forms that were difficult to distinguish\, so they began taking notes\, specimens and DNA samples.  This led to observations of other species elsewhere in the south-west of WA and Central Australia\, expanding their collections and developing a better understanding of the variation within the genus. With assistance from the WA Herbarium and other researchers\, they are working towards a revision of the Xanthorrhoea genus in WA.\nGeoff Cockerton has been working with WA native flora since 1979\, commencing while at university\, initially as a native seed supplier and since then as a botanical consultant\, now working at Western Botanical consultancy.\nLinda Dalgliesh has worked as an ecologist in WA and Qld for the past 20 years and has skills in zoology and botany.\nAfter the main presentation there will be a short focus on Botswana with Diana Papenfus.
URL:https://www.wanaturalists.org.au/events/meeting-speaker-tbc/
LOCATION:Hew Roberts LT\, Nedlands Lecture Theatre\, Clifton St.\, Nedlands
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