In the Media: First Dog on the Moon Draws Our Dingo Paper for The Guardian

Our recent Conservation Letters paper on dingo ancestry across Australia has been picked up by First Dog on the Moon in a new cartoon for The Guardian, arguing — with the usual deadpan conviction — that Australia’s national animal really ought to be the dingo.

Being lampooned by First Dog is something of a rite of passage for Australian science, and seeing the 88.3%-dingo headline turned into a cartoon panel is by some distance the most satisfying form of impact metric I have encountered this year.

View the cartoon on The Guardian · Published 27 May 2026.