Ollie Thomas

Herpetologist. Climber. Trying to find a way to blend the two together

[Tom Martin @tommartin2013]

New paper just out, led by @TheReremouse! Want to catch bats over water, without the drawbacks of having to actually go into the water? This paper demonstrates a novel way to string mistnets over waterbodies using rope access techniques.

[Ollie Thomas @LizardOllie]

@SanneGovaert I think you hid it pretty well 😉

[Ollie Thomas @LizardOllie]

Tales of Scales is back from the Covid hiatus!

Let’s kick things off with some unsolicited Olm facts! Link below! #OlmMyGod #OlmlyFans #TheOneAndOlmly

https://t.co/dwZc2MQWVY

[Save The Snakes @savethesnakes]

Want to know more about what #anacondas eat? Save The Snakes' Advisory Committee member @stevoallain and @LizardOllie recently published a review on the #diet of anacondas and we are excited to share it. Read more at: https://t.co/nHDg6cc3BW

[Ollie Thomas @LizardOllie]

Happy #WorldSnakeDay the perfect day for our new paper - a review of all known prey items of anacondas (Eunectes)!

Despite what Nicki Minaj may have you believe, bun consumption by anacondas does not currently feature in the literature... 🥯🐍

https://t.co/nsmWPC2123

[Ollie Thomas @LizardOllie]

New paper out today (not an April fools joke...) on sleeping site fidelity in three species of Neotropical herpetofauna in Ecuador! Link below for anyone interested 💤🦎🐸! https://t.co/VEzsrA7N97

[Damian Michael @DrDMichael]

Just found another reptile species not previously recorded south of the Murrumbidgee River - the Royal or Regal Striped Skink (Ctenotus regius). This one is eating an insect it stole from an ant #wildoz

[Carlos @carjivil]

Ranitas arrechitas
𝒜ℊ𝒶𝓁𝓎𝒸𝒽𝓃𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓅𝓊𝓇𝓇ℯ𝓁𝓁𝒾

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[Ollie Thomas @LizardOllie]

Just received my first academic citation in this new paper! Look out for me masquerading as “[23]” https://t.co/oo4RcKM5E2

[Dr Mark D. Scherz @MarkScherz]

Meet Brookesia nana, the Nano-Chameleon, probably the world's smallest amniote vertebrate!
We just published its discovery in @SciReports:
https://t.co/PxZRcPeExh
https://t.co/6JtlkMxD5I
Read more about it here: https://t.co/XtVzH9P5J3
📸Frank Glaw

[Santi Ron @santiak]

No parece, pero es. Un escarabajo de la familia Cerambycidae.

[Dr Mark D. Scherz @MarkScherz]

It's the #FrogOfTheDay you've all been waiting for! The amazing, the spectacular, the ✨R O U N D ✨, #23 Rhombophryne testudo Boettger, 1880!
I hope you are ready to learn SO MUCH about one of my favourite #MadagascarFrogs of all time!

[Vivek Menon @vivek4wild]

These beautiful eyes belong to a bush frog named after friends, PK Utthaman the eminent photographer& KV Utthaman a senior forest officer. The beautiful silver & ebony ocular venation marks the Utthaman’s Bush Frog. You decide if it is the most spectacular eye that I have posted!

[Gators Daily 🐊 @GatorsDaily]

the cutie under the bed :)

[Dr Mark D. Scherz @MarkScherz]

Meet today's #FrogOfTheDay #11 Mantella madagascariensis (Grandidier, 1872), the first species of 'poison arrow' frog described from Madagascar! A feat of spectacular #ConvergentEvolution among the #MadagascarFrogs 📸 Vences&Glaw, CalPhotos

[Ollie Thomas @LizardOllie]

New method of snake locomotion?! 🤔 Lasso locomotion in Boiga irregularis published today! There’s nothing those brown tree snakes can’t do https://t.co/FdXnAtwRER

[Dr Mark D. Scherz @MarkScherz]

My colleagues and I have discovered intense, neon-green fluorescence in the web-footed gecko, Pachydactylus rangei!
It's produced by modified iridophores and is amongst the brightest fluorescence in vertebrates.
Published today in @SciReports!
More here: https://t.co/3gtmeKyVm4