Keogh Lab - Division of Ecology & Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University @EcoEvo_ANU
Canberra, Australia
Joined July 2016
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Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
🐸 Tree Frog taxonomic update!
FrogID now reflects the latest revision of Australo-Papuan tree frogs (Donnellan et al. 2025), updating all 122 Australian tree frog profiles and requiring the revalidation of almost 600,000 #FrogID records! Thank you for your patience.
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply.
Apply now: murdoch.edu.au/study/scholar…
Lab website: nicholaswulab.com/
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
This may be the most argued-over origin story in animal evolution. What are your thoughts? Here are some answers: theconversation.com/80-milli…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Proud to share our latest paper in out in @Nature today on the origin of #snakes. We present Tametara mirim, an articulated 3D preserved stem snake from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Our story on the other side of the CNS spectrum...
sciencenews.org/article/3d-r…
Check this out.
AN EXCEPTIONAL NEW FOSSIL IS REFRAMING SNAKE EVOLUTION! Meet 𝘛𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘮, an 80-million-year-old burrower from Brazil. New in Nature, led by Tiago Simões. A privilege to have been part of this. theconversation.com/80-milli…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
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.4m75kv59…
CT data provided by S Decker (2025, CMC 27120, OSUM R685, MorphoSource)
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
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. Read more in The Conversation: doi.org/10.64628/AA.4m75kv59…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
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. Every frame is volume-rendered from real scientific CT scans.
youtu.be/L_D_iCex16o?si=KEMq…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
What’s dartR? 🧬
An open-source R package that helps researchers filter, analyse & visualise genomic data — powering 1,000+ studies in conservation, ag & health. A community-built tool making genomics more accessible.
👉 georges.biomatix.org/blog/po…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Happy World Lizard Day! 🦎
Whether you prefer them earless, legless, spiny or spiky, lizards are incredible creatures. There are over 600 different species in Australia, and more than 6,000 different lizard species across the globe.
Today we're taking a moment to appreciate the diversity, beauty and ecological importance of our lizards, including this Northern Spiny-tailed Gecko (Strophurus cilaris) which calls our Pilungah Reserve on Wangkamadla Country, QLD, home.
📸 Anders Zimney
#WorldLizardDay #Gecko #WildlifePhotography #Lizards #WeLoveNature
ALT Close-up image of a gecko, resting on a textured bark, showing detailed scales and a focused eye.
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Dermal armour in lizards: osteoderms more common than presumed academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
Check out the latest on osteoderm evolution from Roy Ebel!
Scientists have been studying these creatures for more than 200 years, but only now did we discover that they wear ‘chainmail’ in their skin. We found these previously unreported skin bone plates in no less than 29 Australo-Papuan monitor lizard species. doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/z…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we look beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo
Check out this great article by Roy Ebel on his recent paper in ZJLS. Fantastic video as well. New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them. @Ebelosaurus theconversation.com/new-stud…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
🐸 FrogID Dataset 6.0 is now online!
Thanks to over 39,000 people, the dataset covers 6 years of #FrogID records across Australia and includes 974,700+ records from 226 species – that's nearly 1 million frog records!
Read more: australian.museum/blog/amri-…
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Come join us. Three permanent academic positions (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) at @MonashBiol. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. A great place to work.
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Ecology:
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Genomics:
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Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
This new mobile-friendly tool lets you create personalised species checklists for a specified area 📋
Check out the app: spr.ly/60174PzBZ
Made by @unswbees @thomasmesaglio @fonti_kar @will_cornwell and team.
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#rstats #Shiny #ecology
ALT Mosaic of three images. Top left, someone holding a mobile phone using the infinitylists Shiny app. Top right, two botanists on a boardwalk in a Melaleuca swamp in northern Sydney, looking closely at a small plant on the ground. Bottom, pink flowers from a rosy sundew (Drosera spatulata). Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Kate Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, Thomas Mesaglio
Keogh Lab (@keoghlabanu.bsky.social) retweeted
Pretty happy with how my latest book turned out. The pdf version is freely available online.
