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  1. TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @[email protected] ·

    💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎸🐍 Scientists named a newly described #NewGuinea groundsnake, "Lielaphis slashi", after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, for his love of #reptiles.

    Herpetologist Chris Austin first spotted the 71 cm (28 in) snake during nighttime fieldwork in 2006. Genetic and ecological analysis confirmed it as a distinct #species, supporting #conservation in New Guinea’s threatened #forests.

    👉 popsci.com/environment/snake-s

    #snakes #gunsnroses #herpetology #science #biodiversity #zoology #fieldmuseum #nature #wildlife #reptiles #discovery #genetics

    #newguinea #reptiles #species #conservation #forests #snakes
  2. Donald Hobern @[email protected] ·

    I've been going through unsorted accessions in the #Australian National #Insect #Collection (#ANIC) here in Canberra to find any plume #moths (#Pterophoridae) and many-plume moths (#Alucitidae) before doing more work to revise the fauna of these two families.

    Today, I found this specimen collected by David Rentz in #Kuranda #Queensland in 2007 - it's not a known named Australian species but it looks a close match for Platyptilia microbscura recorded only from #Misool, an island to the west of #NewGuinea:

    papua-insects.nl/insect%20orde

    #entomology #Lepidoptera

    #australian #insect #collection #anic #moths #pterophoridae
  3. earthling @[email protected] ·

    #Cassowaries

    #NewGuinea
    #birds

    #cassowaries #newguinea #birds
  4. 💧🌏 Greg Cocks @[email protected] ·

    Sea Level Rise Drowned A Vast Habitable Area Of North-Western Australia Driving Long-Term Cultural Change
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    doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.20 <-- shared paper
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    [By modelling these geographic features, the team estimates that the region could have supported a population of between 50,000 and 500,000 people.]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing #climatechange #Pleistocene #Sahu #human #occupation #dispersal #archaeology #rockart #indigeneous #aborgines #firstnation #ancientpeoples #paleogeography #drownedlandscapes #Continentalshelf #Sealevelchange #bathymetry #topobathy #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #NewGuinea #PapuaNewGuinea #kimberley #arnhemland #NorthernAustralia #WesternAustralia #marine #ocean #innundation #model #modeling #archipelago
    #australia #Wallacea #habitation #settlement #civilisation #maritime #economics #ancienthistory #sediment #sampling #geology #holocene

    #gis #spatial #mapping #sealevelrise #demographics #remotesensing