The third episode of the SquaMates podcast—bigger, better, and much, much longer than ever before! The show is rife with bad puns and brilliant science, and hosted by Mark D. Scherz, Gabriel Ugueto, and Ethan Kocak! In this third episode, an unplanned drinking game is introduced, as well as a new section title! We talk about cobras, leafblowers, synapomorphic skull loss among stem Serpentes, and the ridiculous diversity of the Gymnophthghshmhalmidae, before diving into our main topic (by popular demand): the Toxicofera, and the age-old question, ‘just what is venom, anyway?’ and ‘why is my hand falling off?’ The featured #HERpers are a trifecta of amazing Victorian-Edwardian women, whose fates differed dramatically, but who helped light the way for women in herpetology. Episode notes sometimes get clipped on your device or by your podcast provider; for full (extensive) notes, go to http://www.squamatespod.com Missedsnakes References: Smith, J.J., Timoshevskaya, N., Timoshevskiy, V.A., Keinath, M.C., Hardy, D. & Voss, S.R. (2018) A Chromosome-Scale Assembly of the Enormous (32 Gb) Axolotl Genome. bioRxiv, 10.1101/373548 Works in Frogress: Mark’s blogpost about the new geckos and frogs he described New books illustrated by Gabriel and Ethan: ‘So you think you know about… Dinosaurs’ Breaking Newts References: Wüster, W., Chirio, L., Trape, J.-F., Ineich, I., Jackson, K., Greenbaum, E., Barron, C., Kusamba, C., Nagy, Z.T., Storey, R., Hall, C., Wüster, C.E., Barlow, A. & Broadley, D.G. (2018) Integration of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology reveals unexpected diversity in the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca) species complex in Central and West Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). Zootaxa, 4455, 68–98. 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.3 Donihue, C.M., Herrel, A., Fabre, A.-C., Kamath, A., Geneva, A.J., Schoener, T.W., Kolbe, J.J. & Losos, J.B. (2018) Hurricane-induced selection on the morphology of an island lizard. Nature, 560, 88–91. 10.1038/s41586-018-0352-3 *hilarious video here Xing, L., Caldwell, M.W., Chen, R., Nydam, R.L., Palci, A., Simões, T.R., McKellar, R.C., Lee, M.S.Y., Liu, Y., Shi, H., Wang, K. & Bai, M. (2018) A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar. Science Advances, 4, eaat5042. 10.1126/sciadv.aat5042 Perry, B.W., Card, D.C., McGlothlin, J.W., Pasquesi, G.I.M., Adams, R.H., Schield, D.R., Hales, N.R., Corbin, A.B., Demuth, J.P., Hoffmann, F.G., Vandewege, M.W., Schott, R.K., Bhattacharyya, N., Chang, B.S.W., Casewell, N.R., Whiteley, G., Reyes-Velasco, J., Mackessy, S.P., Gamble, T., Storey, K.B., Biggar, K.K., Passow, C.N., Kuo, C.-H., McGaugh, S.E., Bronikowski, A.M., de Koning, J., Edwards, S.V., Pfrender, M.E., Minx, P., Brodie, I.I.I.E.D., Brodie, J.E.D., Warren, W.C. & Castoe, T.A. (in press) Molecular adaptations for sensing and securing prey and insight into amniote genome diversity from the garter snake genome. Genome Biology and Evolution, accepted, evy157. 10.1093/gbe/evy157 Edwards, R.J., Tuipulotu, D.E., Amos, T.G., O’Meally, D., Richardson, M.F., Russell, T.L., Vallinoto, M., Carneiro, M., Ferrand, N., Wilkins, M.R., Sequeira, F., Rollins, L.A., Holmes, E.C., Shine, R. & White, P.A. (in press) Draft genome assembly of the invasive cane toad, Rhinella marina. GigaScience, giy095.