2023 Spring school holidays #BirdTally: - Crested tern - Pacific gull - Kelp gull - Silver gull - Sooty oystercatcher - Pied oystercatcher - Tasmanian thornbill - Yellow wattlebird - Yellow throated honeyeater - New Holland honeyeater - Pallid Cuckoo (call only)

2023 Spring school holiday #MammalTally: - Aussie fur seals - Bottlenose dolphins - Platypus - Echidna - Forester Roo - Bennett’s wallaby - Pademelon - Long-nosed potoroo

The @tasmuseum team is talking seal swimming at #FestivalOfBrightIdeas #Hobart

We proposed in our recent swimming evolution paper, that use of paws for feeding (like otters) may have constrained early seals from adapting their paws for swimming, leading early seals to become rear propelled. cell.com/current-biology/pdf…

These distinct feeding modes are still reflected a bit in modern pinnipeds, with phocines using clawed paws during feeding, while otariids use only their jaws.

They have also been observed killing and eating seals and sea birds, using their tusks to help open the carcass!

Check out our #NewPaper led by Felix Marx on the widespread occurrence of suction-related tooth wear in living and extinct marine mammals: link.springer.com/article/10…

Hello @Frxst_Wing, yep, I should have a good image somewhere! I'll have a look later and get back to you! There's more footage at the end of this clip: vimeo.com/543009382

#FrogID week is here again! Download the free @FrogIDAus app and head out this weekend! @austmus @tasmuseum

#ThreatenedSpeciesDay falls on the anniversary of the death of the last known #thylacine in 1936 - right here at the old Beaumaris Zoo.