@IsaacARKerr

PhD, kangaroo palaeontologist at Flinders Uni on Kaurna country. Also greenie, comic 'artist', musician, opinion-haver He/him

Joined March 2022
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Here is our great big monograph on #fossil #megafaunal #kangaroos of genus #Protemnodon! Six years in the making. We recognise 7 species, 3 newly named, with diversity of locomotor mode. Thanks to everyone that got this over the line ❤️ doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.11…
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A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna. @koungoulos @IsaacARKerr @OurANU @FlindersUniNews @uwanews theconversation.com/giant-ka…

Giant kangaroos survived until 6,500 years ago on the New Guinea coast

A new study challenges conventional thinking about what drove the extinction of megafauna.

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doi.org/10.1080/03115518.202… New #research out today! We describe a late Miocene #fossil #kangaroo from central #Australia...

A new fossil kangaroo species of the genus Dorcopsoides (Marsupialia, Macropodinae) from the late...

The kangaroo tribe Dorcopsini is represented today by six species of New Guinean forest-wallaby. However, the group has a patchy fossil record beginning on the Australian mainland in the upper Mioc...

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Should've happened a while ago, but I'm saying goodbye now to this burning train being driven headlong into oblivion by a world-destroying, wannabe-fascist little man-child. Come join me where the sky is Blue and my handle is the same as here xo
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"Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it." George Monbiot. No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
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Exciting news! The free, online Skeletal Atlas of the #Echidna is here! Thanks to @marsupialtapir & all for bringing this beautiful resource to life. #zoology #wildlife #palaeontology #monotreme #skeleton westernweb.net/2024/12/10/sk…

Skeletal Atlas of the Echidna

By Nat Warburton. An Open Access Resource for Researchers and Students Greetings to all researchers, students, and enthusiasts in the fields of zoology, functional morphology, wildlife biology, and…

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You mean mass redundancies, the evisceration of entire disciplines, rampant managerialism, and the fanatic embrace of a profit-driven model of scholarship haven't fostered a climate of open inquiry and big ideas? Who could've known?! 🤷‍♂️ theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Australian universities tumble in world rankings as some record worst result ever

University of Melbourne – Australia’s top ranked institution – scored lowest position in 21-year history of Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Heck, when you see it all lined up like that... it's absolutely as bad as it seems.
Dr Emma Dunne@emmadnn26 Aug 2024
Lots to digest in this piece - well worth 5 mins of your time to read. Though grim, the original study puts tangible numbers on the utterly shit situation that so many PhD grads + postdocs are finding themselves in right now 😔
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Op Ed by me, in @AusGeo. "What’s most important, and sorely needed, is a reckoning with our relationship with this vast continent’s lands, seas and waters." australiangeographic.com.au/…

OPINION: Law reform for nature - Australian Geographic

Conserving Australia’s biodiversity requires a national reckoning, argues wildlife ecologist Euan Ritchie.

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The description of the skull of Genyornis newtoni, a giant anseriform, is finally out, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… after years of work, this skull has revealed so much more about this bird and its relatives than we could have hoped for. @Blokoweka and Trevor Worthy

Skull morphology of the enigmatic Genyornis newtoni Stirling and Zeitz, 1896 (Aves, Dromornithida...

The presence of Dromornithidae in the Australian Cenozoic fossil record was first reported in 1872, yet although eight species and hundreds of specimens are known, key information on their morpholo...

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abc.net.au/news/science/2024… beaut article from @ABCscience about @Blokoweka's amazing #Genyornis #reconstruction!
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Another new paper looking at how both the size of an animal and its diet together influence skull shape - this time in rodents! 🐭💀 Well done team! @WeisbeckerLab @aemarcy @TGuillerme onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Beyond CREA: Evolutionary patterns of non‐allometric shape variation and divergence in a highly...

Rodent skulls display a highly conserved, strongly size-dependent (allometric) range of shapes that is commonly found across mammals. We here use geometric morphometric analysis of Australian rodent...

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Very honoured to have been a contributing scientist to the new #megafauna documentary by @ABCaustralia which is now live on #ABCiview. The production team and the scientists are wonderful. Very highly recommend watching the new series Megafauna: what killed Australia's giants?
Taylor&Francis News@tandfnewsroom25 Jun 2024
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Not had enough of our 'giga-goose'? 🪿 Neither have we! Great news for any Aussies 🇦🇺 you can catch @Phoebyornis on new @ABCaustralia show, #MegafaunaABC as they uncover what killed Australia's giants featuring Genyornis newtoni and many other megafauna 🦴
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Back from the trip of a lifetime to #papuanewguinea, 2 weeks in the Bulolo area digging for #fossils in the Pliocene Otibanda Formation. Thankyou to @MuseumPNG, & to the welcoming & generous people in Saksak village for trusting us with your place & knowledge, we'll be back soon!
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The trip was generously funded by an Australia & Pacific Science Foundation grant.
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The best thing about digging in PNG is you never do it alone. We owe just about every fossil we found to our good mates at Saksak
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Thanks also to the trip's unofficial sponsor
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new episode of #palsinpalaeo with @IsaacARKerr from @FlindersPalaeo talking about the #extinct kangaroo #Protemnodon open.spotify.com/episode/6Rg…
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Great geochronological detective work Lee Arnold. @UofA_SET @UofAPalaeos abc.net.au/news/2024-05-09/s…

Shirley the giant prehistoric wombat-like marsupial now has an age. And she's old

Just over a decade ago, an outback cattle station worker in the NT stumbled across a rare diprotodon fossil sticking out of the red soil. Now fondly known as Shirley, scientists have discovered how...

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As a #kangaroo #palaeontologist and comic artist it is very cool and fun to see our research and @zieglertn 's beaut new Sthen skeleton show up in a comic by @firstdogonmoon . What a frickin great day. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

All the extinct kangaroo boffins are losing their minds at the latest kangaroo news! | First Dog on...

Omg it is an almost complete fossil specimen of a juvenile sthenurine!

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