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Kailah Thorn

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Palaeontologist. Collections Manager (Herpetology) - Western Australian Museum. Boardgamer but will pull out a Nintendo from time to time.

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Cryptic Kultarr: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Unrecognized Species of Carnivorous Marsupial (Dasyuridae: Antechinomys) in Arid Australia Conservation is impossible if we have not described all of the species we aim to conserve. This paper reviews the taxonomy of the kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) a small arid-zone specialist native to....

The kultarr is officially three species!
So proud of this work and a big thanks to Australia's amazing museum network and my great supervisor team
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Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

"We are seeking a motivated, capable and skilled technician with experience in providing specialist laboratory and technical support to the South Australian Regional Facility for Molecular Ecology and Evolution (SARFMEE)"

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An annotated checklist of Australasian fossil mammals Australasia has had a rich history of discovery of fossil mammals, with the first specimens collected within Wellington Caves, New South Wales and described by Richard Owen in 1838. Currently, a to...

New publication: taxonomy and classification of every fossil mammal species in Australasiaβ€”Wallace Line to New Zealand!

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A "double-prep" frog: half taxidermy model / half skeleton, with an inflated lung

A "double-prep" frog: half taxidermy model / half skeleton, with an inflated lung

A "double-prep" lizard: half taxidermy / half skeleton

A "double-prep" lizard: half taxidermy / half skeleton

A "double-prep" chicken: half taxidermy / half skeleton

A "double-prep" chicken: half taxidermy / half skeleton

Like a real-life anatomy diagram, these "double-prep" specimens of a frog, lizard and chicken have been prepared so they are half skeleton and half taxidermy. They're a great way of showing what animals look like with their clothes off.
πŸΈπŸ¦ŽπŸ” At the Sorbonne Zoology Museum

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That Congruus is a thing of nightmares. Is that tree sap or blood? I love it.

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