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You may have missed… Please wear a mask when taking selfies with gorillas Gorillas can catch SARS-CoV-2 from humans: in January, it spread to gorillas at the San Diego Zoo, US. Now, research published in the journal People and Nature suggests that wild gorillas could also be at risk of contracting the virus from tourists. The researchers analysed nearly 1,000 Instagram posts during 2013–19, each featuring selfies with gorillas, from people trekking through eastern Africa. Most of the photographs (86%) showed people getting within 4 metres of the gorilla: close enough to easily transfer the virus. People were touching gorillas in 25 photos. Since 2010, there has been an international standard recommending people stay at least 7m away from gorillas when visiting them in the wild. Only 3% of photos complied with this rule. It’s also been recommended over the past decade that tourists wear face masks when visiting wild gorillas – researchers noted that ....
Now a remote expedition to a large inland salt lake in 2017 has sifted through remains unearthed in Namba Formation deposits to describe a tiny new skink, an ancestor of Australia s well-known bluetongue lizards - to be named in honour of world-renown Flinders University lizard researcher Professor Mike Bull. The new species, unveiled in the Royal Society s Open Science today, is described as Australia s oldest - a 25 million-year-old skink named Proegernia mikebulli after the late Flinders University Professor Mike Bull. It was found by Flinders University and South Australian Museum palaeontologists and volunteers at a rich fossil site on Lake Pinpa located on the 602,000 square hectare Frome Downs Station, seven hours drive north of capital city Adelaide. ....
Date Time New Australian fossil lizard unearthed A remote expedition to a large salt lake in South Australia has unearthed the fossils of a tiny new species of skink, pronounced Australia’s oldest at 25 million years old. Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Flinders University and the South Australian Museum made the discovery in 2017 at a rich fossil site, seven hours drive north of Adelaide. The new species, an ancestor of the bluetongue lizard, was unveiled today in Royal Society’s Open Scienceand officially named Proegernia mikebulli in honour of the late Flinders University lizard researcher Professor Mike Bull. ....