25-million-year-old fossils of a bizarre possum and strange wombat relative reveal Australia's hidden past
- Written by: Arthur Immanuel Crichton, PhD candidate, Flinders University
Relative of _Chunia pledgei_ named _Ektopodon serratus_ (top left), with _Wakaleo oldfieldi_.Reconstruction of the early Miocene Kutjumarpu faunal assemblage by Peter Schouten, CC BY-SAImagine a vast, lush forest dominated by giant flightless birds and crocodiles. This was Australia’s Red Centre 25 million years ago. There lived several...