# Event Details

- **Event Name**: One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink – A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm – Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Kailah Thorn is the WA Museum Collections Manager for Herpetology and crawls through Western Australian caves searching for recently extinct reptiles. She specialises in Australian reptile fossils that are less than 66 million years old (from the Cenozoic) and has described Australia’s oldest skink (Proegernia mikebulli), deciphered when the first true bluetongue lizard evolved, and assembled the largest skink on earth: Tiliqua frangens.

Fossils from across the country can help us answer big questions and even reveal spiky surprises — like a bobtail lizard as long as your arm, weighing 1,000 times more than a garden skink, and covered in spiked, armoured plating! Fossils extend our expectations of what animals look like, where they live, where they’ve come from and what might have brought about their extinction. This talk will dive deep into the fossil history of Australia’s most diverse vertebrate family, Scincidae: when did they get here and what’s happened to them since?

There will be a focus talk on Tasmanian flora and fauna from Tanya Marwood.

Image: Kailah Thorn in Horseshoe Cave
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/perth/one-skink-two-skink-big-skink-blue-skink-a-fossil-history-of-iconic-australian-reptiles/200030182110619
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Perth
- **state**: WA
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre (UWA Nedlands)
- **lat**: -31.9763962878
- **long**: 115.812742291
- **full address**: Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre (UWA Nedlands), 22 Gordon St, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia, Perth

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink - A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles being held?
  - **A:** One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink - A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles takes place on Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 09:30 pm at Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre (UWA Nedlands), 22 Gordon St, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia, Perth.
- **Q**: Who is organizing One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink - A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles?
  - **A:** One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink - A fossil history of iconic Australian reptiles is organized by WA Naturalists' Club.

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