Meet the Museum: One skink, two skink, big skink, blue skink
Dates
Thursday 17 April | 5pm - 6pm
Doors open | 4.45pm for a 5pm start
Standard | $10
Concession | $8
Junior | $8
Suitable for Ages 12+
Members
Friend Members receive 15% off ticket pricing for this event.
Site access information
WA Museum Boola Bardip is fully accessible. Call 1300 134 081 for assistance. Accessible resources and programs >
What do we know about Australia's most diverse reptile group? Where did they come from, when did they get here, what did they eat, and what might they have looked like?
Fossils from across the country help us answer these big questions. They reveal a bobtail the length of your arm, weighing 1000 times more than a garden skink and covered in spiked armour plating.
Dr Kailah Thorn specialises in Australian reptile fossils from the Cenozoic Era (less than 66 million years old). She has described Australia's oldest skink (Proegernia mikebulli), traced the origins of the first true bluetongue lizard, and assembled the largest skink to ever exist on earth (Tiliqua frangens). Now, she's crawling through Western Australian caves in search for recently extinct reptiles!
Kailah is currently employed by the Western Australian Museum as Collections Manager for Herpetology.
Meet the Museum
Are you curious about the fascinating world behind the scenes at the Museum? This monthly program delves into the less visible parts of the Museum’s work, as scientists, researchers, historians and curators share their expertise and passions.
