It was the greatest of all honours to be featured as Museums Victoria's flagship speaker at the Royal Society of Victoria's launch event for National Science Week. Many thanks to the organisers and the wonderful audience.

Not only may we just have found the key to an untold chapter in the goanna story, our findings may also improve our understanding of the forces of evolution that shaped Australia’s unique reptile fauna. theconversation.com/new-study-pe...

Scientists have been studying these formidable 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/zool...

Monitor lizards, also known in Australia as goannas, are some of the most iconic reptiles on the continent. In our new study, we looked beneath their skin with cutting-edge imaging techniques – and we may just have found the key to their evolutionary success. youtu.be/RfOK2wWYjLo