"...regional extinction rate of between 75 and 84% for squamates in the Western Interior of North America and suggests this group was more severely impacted across the K/Pg boundary than other small-bodied vertebrates."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"...regional extinction rate of between 75 and 84% for squamates in the Western Interior of North America and suggests this group was more severely impacted across the K/Pg boundary than other small-bodied vertebrates."
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology
A little bit of continuing inventory. This box mostly squamates and crocs...
February 28, 2026 at 1:07 PM
A little bit of continuing inventory. This box mostly squamates and crocs...
A third me, correcting the first two: technically all squamates are lizards, including all snakes
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A third me, correcting the first two: technically all squamates are lizards, including all snakes
Incredible, a spiky iguanodont was just described!! The structures seem different from proto-feathers in dinosaurs and spiky scales in squamates!! #paleontology #dinosaurs #science
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 6, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Incredible, a spiky iguanodont was just described!! The structures seem different from proto-feathers in dinosaurs and spiky scales in squamates!! #paleontology #dinosaurs #science
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brand new episode of our herpetology podcast is out now and it’s about mosasaurs
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
SquaMates Ep. 36: Is this a mosasaur?
YouTube video by SquaMates Podcast
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August 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A brand new episode of our herpetology podcast is out now and it’s about mosasaurs
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes | Annual Reviews
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
www.annualreviews.org
September 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes | Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
And I mean real snakes, not politician photos.
squamates.
Legless bois.
squamates.
Legless bois.
Ahem hello I have been informed it is #WorldSnakeDay
Please fill my feed with lovely snake photos I've seen some already that are Very Good.
Please fill my feed with lovely snake photos I've seen some already that are Very Good.
July 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And I mean real snakes, not politician photos.
squamates.
Legless bois.
squamates.
Legless bois.
Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle?
C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris?
Here you go:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris?
Here you go:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
March 24, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle?
C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris?
Here you go:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
C'est par ici: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris?
Here you go:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
In this age of meta glasses and general MAGA nuts, we need local lawyers in each state teaching girls and women from 10-30 exactly what those states' laws on self defense permit, prohibit, & arguably permit so that these stalker squamates get exactly what is coming to them, no more, but NEVER less.
if i were one of the girls they’re harassing they’d be filming themselves getting nutpunched
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults.
In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
August 19, 2026 at 10:23 PM
In this age of meta glasses and general MAGA nuts, we need local lawyers in each state teaching girls and women from 10-30 exactly what those states' laws on self defense permit, prohibit, & arguably permit so that these stalker squamates get exactly what is coming to them, no more, but NEVER less.
Episode 25 of the SquaMates Podcast is now LIVE!
You can also watch us in YouTube!
In today’s episode we talk about Micrurus fighting over a caecilian! What?!
youtu.be/NXBdbHST8LA?...
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍
You can also watch us in YouTube!
In today’s episode we talk about Micrurus fighting over a caecilian! What?!
youtu.be/NXBdbHST8LA?...
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍
May 9, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Episode 25 of the SquaMates Podcast is now LIVE!
You can also watch us in YouTube!
In today’s episode we talk about Micrurus fighting over a caecilian! What?!
youtu.be/NXBdbHST8LA?...
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍
You can also watch us in YouTube!
In today’s episode we talk about Micrurus fighting over a caecilian! What?!
youtu.be/NXBdbHST8LA?...
🐡 🎨 🧪 🐍
Pls put away your “king lizards were gizzard wizards” japes and jests
archosaurs and squamates are mutually exclusive clades, you KNOW this
archosaurs and squamates are mutually exclusive clades, you KNOW this
Interesting article on the form and function of dinosaur gizzard tools -- the gastroliths, in the inference of their diets, and the evolution of feeding ecology.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
August 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Pls put away your “king lizards were gizzard wizards” japes and jests
archosaurs and squamates are mutually exclusive clades, you KNOW this
archosaurs and squamates are mutually exclusive clades, you KNOW this
Celebrate #WorldLizardDay with us! Episode 36 is live now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! You can join us in the live chat on the YouTube Premiere!
🦎🧪
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
🦎🧪
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
SquaMates Ep. 36: Is this a mosasaur?
YouTube video by SquaMates Podcast
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Celebrate #WorldLizardDay with us! Episode 36 is live now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! You can join us in the live chat on the YouTube Premiere!
🦎🧪
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
🦎🧪
youtu.be/OePkLM5DTgc
Our new preprint on apparent evolutionary rate incongruences in squamates for discrete vs GMM data across distinct methods, and what these patterns may reflect of their underlying phenotypic evolutionary processes: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#evolution #squamates
#evolution #squamates
Evolutionary rate incongruences in squamates reveal contrasting patterns of evolutionary novelties and innovation
ecoevorxiv.org
May 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our new preprint on apparent evolutionary rate incongruences in squamates for discrete vs GMM data across distinct methods, and what these patterns may reflect of their underlying phenotypic evolutionary processes: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#evolution #squamates
#evolution #squamates
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes
Squamates (lizards, including snakes) are the most diverse group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today and have an evolutionary history dating back to at least the Middle Triassic (ca. 242 Mya). D...
www.annualreviews.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Origin and Early Evolution of Squamates and Their Kin: From Fossils to Genomes - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Newly described crocodile lizard, Acutodon villeveyracensis from the Campanian of France. Estimated at >1 m in length and with thin, sharp, recurved teeth, it likely competed with two other large squamates: a large terrestrial monstersaur and a freshwater mosasaur.
May 24, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Newly described crocodile lizard, Acutodon villeveyracensis from the Campanian of France. Estimated at >1 m in length and with thin, sharp, recurved teeth, it likely competed with two other large squamates: a large terrestrial monstersaur and a freshwater mosasaur.
If you want a really fun, extremely nerdy podcast about what’s new in the world of reptiles and amphibians, myself, @markscherz.bsky.social, @hiralnaik.bsky.social and @serpenillus.bsky.social do one called SquaMates.
Squamatespod.com
Squamatespod.com
SquaMates Podcast
Do you like herpetology and listening to nerds babble about their passions? Then listen to the show. It’s only a few hours of your life. We’re funny, we promise. And if not, we hope you learn something. And if not, there are no refunds.
Squamatespod.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
If you want a really fun, extremely nerdy podcast about what’s new in the world of reptiles and amphibians, myself, @markscherz.bsky.social, @hiralnaik.bsky.social and @serpenillus.bsky.social do one called SquaMates.
Squamatespod.com
Squamatespod.com
Our latest paper, now how to conciliate apparently discrepant evolutionary rate patterns in squamates, but which may well apply to any study system with Stephanie Pierce and
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
Evolutionary rate incongruences in squamates reveal contrasting patterns of evolutionary novelties and innovation
Abstract. Understanding the rate of phenotypic evolution can reveal fundamental aspects of organismal evolutionary trajectories. Hence, several studies hav
academic.oup.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Our latest paper, now how to conciliate apparently discrepant evolutionary rate patterns in squamates, but which may well apply to any study system with Stephanie Pierce and
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
@7brumas.bsky.social
#macroevolution
academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...
Two years later and I still need to finish part 2 on dibamids. They're weird and fascinating, look... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/5/... #reptiles #herpetology #lizards #squamates
The Mysterious Dibamids — Tetrapod Zoology
Among the most poorly known of all squamate groups are the dibamids…
tetzoo.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Two years later and I still need to finish part 2 on dibamids. They're weird and fascinating, look... tetzoo.com/blog/2024/5/... #reptiles #herpetology #lizards #squamates
While at the Etches Collection museum yesterday, I looked for wildlife and.... a juvenile Slow worm! I photograph every individual I encounter, this is my first one for 2026 :) #herpetology #reptiles #squamates
April 15, 2026 at 9:51 AM
While at the Etches Collection museum yesterday, I looked for wildlife and.... a juvenile Slow worm! I photograph every individual I encounter, this is my first one for 2026 :) #herpetology #reptiles #squamates
#WIPSnips
#RelicWorld
Always before his mother had told him to eschew the company of the squamates which could be found in farmyard, meadow, and cultivated field.
#RelicWorld
Always before his mother had told him to eschew the company of the squamates which could be found in farmyard, meadow, and cultivated field.
September 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#WIPSnips
#RelicWorld
Always before his mother had told him to eschew the company of the squamates which could be found in farmyard, meadow, and cultivated field.
#RelicWorld
Always before his mother had told him to eschew the company of the squamates which could be found in farmyard, meadow, and cultivated field.
It's #worldlizardday and the newest @squamatespod.bsky.social episode it out now! Go give it a listen 🦎
youtube.com/watch?v=OePk...
youtube.com/watch?v=OePk...
SquaMates Ep. 36: Is this a mosasaur?
YouTube video by SquaMates Podcast
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August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's #worldlizardday and the newest @squamatespod.bsky.social episode it out now! Go give it a listen 🦎
youtube.com/watch?v=OePk...
youtube.com/watch?v=OePk...
1. Snakes and other squamates with giant facial scales (amphisbaenians, pygopodids, dibamids) are highly specialised weirdos that are probably like this due to a burrowing ancestry, as you imply. Totally atypical.
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
1. Snakes and other squamates with giant facial scales (amphisbaenians, pygopodids, dibamids) are highly specialised weirdos that are probably like this due to a burrowing ancestry, as you imply. Totally atypical.
New Episode coming soon!
Tune in at 16h CEST/10h Eastern/7h Pacific TODAY for the drop of Episode 34, wherein we do a deep dive into Bearded Dragons! 🧪🦎
Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or over on YouTube:
youtu.be/L-g7xkONw3U
Tune in at 16h CEST/10h Eastern/7h Pacific TODAY for the drop of Episode 34, wherein we do a deep dive into Bearded Dragons! 🧪🦎
Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or over on YouTube:
youtu.be/L-g7xkONw3U
SquaMates Ep. 34: M-m-m-my Pogona!
YouTube video by SquaMates Podcast
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July 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New Episode coming soon!
Tune in at 16h CEST/10h Eastern/7h Pacific TODAY for the drop of Episode 34, wherein we do a deep dive into Bearded Dragons! 🧪🦎
Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or over on YouTube:
youtu.be/L-g7xkONw3U
Tune in at 16h CEST/10h Eastern/7h Pacific TODAY for the drop of Episode 34, wherein we do a deep dive into Bearded Dragons! 🧪🦎
Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or over on YouTube:
youtu.be/L-g7xkONw3U
Episode 23 of SquaMates Podcast is available NOW! Come hear us talk about a bunch stuff including riding tortoises into battle! 🐢
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPJ...
🐢 🧪 #herpetology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPJ...
🐢 🧪 #herpetology
March 4, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Episode 23 of SquaMates Podcast is available NOW! Come hear us talk about a bunch stuff including riding tortoises into battle! 🐢
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPJ...
🐢 🧪 #herpetology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPJ...
🐢 🧪 #herpetology
PREPRINT ALERT !!!
Excited to share our #reptile #embryo cryopreservation method optimised on peri-gastrulation veiled chameleon embryos! This lays the foundation for functional studies & reptile #conservation efforts!
#devbio #squamates #evodevo
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Excited to share our #reptile #embryo cryopreservation method optimised on peri-gastrulation veiled chameleon embryos! This lays the foundation for functional studies & reptile #conservation efforts!
#devbio #squamates #evodevo
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
April 7, 2026 at 5:05 AM
PREPRINT ALERT !!!
Excited to share our #reptile #embryo cryopreservation method optimised on peri-gastrulation veiled chameleon embryos! This lays the foundation for functional studies & reptile #conservation efforts!
#devbio #squamates #evodevo
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
Excited to share our #reptile #embryo cryopreservation method optimised on peri-gastrulation veiled chameleon embryos! This lays the foundation for functional studies & reptile #conservation efforts!
#devbio #squamates #evodevo
www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...