To my #SecretSantaNZ2022 thank you for sending the present I’m hoping it will still arrive at some point. Just a snippet of where it has been in Auckland

Thank you so much to my mid-winter secret santa! I absolutely love the presents (already drinking one of the teas). Please reach out if you and your daughter (lizards are the best!) come into the museum. Merry mid-winter Christmas all #MidWinterSecretSanta

Similar experience - trying to get a shot of a Lord Howe Island gecko and got dive bombed by a muttonbird (the bird freed itself from the branches shortly after).

Difficult handwriting query - please send through your best guesses for the locations of these molluscs. They should be in Aotearoa New Zealand.

I just did a dive into the database. We have 3 tuatara that are recorded as from captivity and Died in Museum. LH272 and LH286 died in 1937, LH262 died in 1942. All look like adults (the image is LH262 in a 2L jar) when I went and checked on them.

Thank you so much to my #SecretSantaNZ2021! Absolutely spoilt with gifts including an amazing fish towel that will be coming on all beach and field trips with me. Thanks team for organising a wonderful end to the year. Loving seeing all the posts today.

The ocean and anything marine; supporting small Aotearoa New Zealand makers and chocolate.

I love lizards and frogs

Is it the new gnomesville?

Photo: Irene Middleton @SeacologyN

Yes it feels like a weird time to be sending a reminder around now so here’s a gecko as well

Great photo Kane - here’s a greenhood orchid from Rangitoto the weekend before lockdown.

Stripey ring for consideration

When I moved to New Zealand I decided to get back in touch with my creative side so started a jewellery making course. Here’s a Tiliqua pendant I made last year. instagram.com/p/COgEMcAtgKm/…

Hi @FrogIDAus am I able to upload frog calls of Australian species in NZ? I’ve got a recording that’s submitted pending upload but I can’t seem to upload it, possibly due to 0 potential species? Thanks!

Had the realisation that recording talks means I’m also going to have to listen to myself give a talk.

Glaeo had eyelashes for days as well

I give you hiking in south-west WA.

Me with the types if a volcano erupts

Cute as pie - Simoselaps anomalus

Cute Pygmy blue-tongue @DrStewMacdonald all I’ve got is a shot of me fishing on the boardwalk on Lord Howe

Throwback to a year ago in Perth - two best mornings of diving and snorkelling with baby sea dragons, @NeridaWilson, @jignacio3437 and @PaigeMaroni #phyllopteryx #motherofdragons #babydragons #goodnews

When you set up a WhatsApp group for work colleagues - animal emojis galore.

Spreading cuteness one lizard at a time - here’s a hatchling LHI skink (Oligosoma lichenigerum) #positivenews #lizardphotos

Lucky to be part of an incredible bunch of scientists from the @AusSocHerp attending the World Congress of Herpetology. #WCH9