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RZS NSW Events


RZS NSW hosts various events during the year.

Annual Scientific Forum

Join us and other zoologists to hear about and discuss various views on a current and relevant topic. The annual scientific forum is a great opportunity to network and catch up.


Wildlife at the Watering Hole

Join us monthly at the Rose of Australia to have an informal discussion on a topic that is bound to get you hooked.


Zoology Career Expo

Do you want a career in Zoology? Come and hear first hand what some of your options are. 


Upcoming events

  • Wildlife at the Watering Hole - September 2025 - Dr Blake Dickson

    • 15 September 2025
    • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Rose of Australia Hotel, 1 Swanston St, Erskineville NSW 2043
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    Tetrapods and the water land transition: Old fossils and new technologies on the evolution of limbs

    Dr Blake Dickson

    The evolution of tetrapods and the water-land transition has been long debated among palaeontologists. Foremost at question is when exactly did tetrapods become terrestrial? This simple question has remained hotly contested largely due to a sparsity of fossils during the exact period of this transition - roughly between 360-335 million years ago. I'll be discussing old problems, new methods, and the latest fossil finds being used to reconstruct the water-land transition.


    Meet Blake: 

    Blake is a zoologist, biomechanist and palaeobiologist in the Department of Anatomy at UNSW. His research focuses on anatomical adaptations to locomotion across modern and fossil animals, but also extends to biomechanics, evolutionary modelling and in methodological innovation. With no taxonomic loyalties, Blake's research spans from turtles, primates, early tetrapods, and now marsupials.

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