by Riley | Sep 7, 2016 | Lab news, Lizard Lab adventures, Science news
Note: the following post is by Julia Riley and also posted on her web page. On 14 August 2016, a small contingent of the Lizard Lab headed from Sydney, Australia to Hangzhou, China for the 8th World Congress of Herpetology. Our fearless leader, Martin Whiting, as well...
by Whiting | Jun 22, 2015 | Animal signals, Colour, Communication, Publications, Science news
Interested in colour signals and wondering about the best approaches to researching colour and what you should be reporting? Two recent papers from members of the lab and fellow researchers at Macquarie and elsewhere should help! In the first paper, Kemp et al....
by Whiting | Feb 14, 2014 | Science news, Sexual selection, Social behaviour, Uncategorized
Lizard Lab alumnus Pau Carazo is best known for his work on communication in lizards. Along the way he has dabbled with beetles and now, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). In a recent paper in Nature, Pau and his colleagues at Oxford designed a novel series of...
by Whiting | Nov 4, 2013 | Behaviour, Lab news, Science news, Sexual selection, Water skink project
By Dan Noble Sexual selection – the differential reproductive success of individuals – is a powerful evolutionary force. Sexual selection can lead to evolution of both beautiful and bizarre phenotypes, such as peacock trains, deer antlers and the complex displays and...
by Whiting | Mar 7, 2013 | Herpetology, Science news
I just learnt today that Hobart Muir Smith passed away a few days ago at age 100. Hobart is the most published herpetologist of all time (likely > 1600 publications) and is especially well known in North America and Mexico for his massive contribution to...
by Whiting | Feb 25, 2013 | Books, Lizard ecology, Science news
The Lizard Lab recently had the pleasure of a visit from Steve Wilson and he was kind enough to bring a few copies of his new book Australian Lizards: A Natural History. As Steve points out in the preface, we don’t hear people talking about lizards nearly enough! The...
