#wakaleo

And so the Riversleigh #paleostream concluded! Lots of weird marsupials in this one. Since we chose to depict here a Miocene faunal zone you will not come across your typical Australian megafauna, like Diprotodon and Dromornis, that stuff came later.

We are looking at their ancestors, before the rainforest collapse.

Here some detail shots. Next time we will visit the Kimmeridge clay, a late Jurassic marine ecosystem.

Wakaleo, a cenozoic smaller marsupial lion Weewarrasaurus, a cretaceous ornithopod dinosaur Wintonotitan, a cretaceous sauropod dinosaur Wonambi, a cenozoic giant constrictor snake

Aaaw. Bat Burritos. Aren’t they cuuuuute! Inspirational story here. Extreme heat events in the land down under has managed to wipe out colonies of these species of bats – the Flying Fox, the largest bats in the world, and the Australian Bat Clinic (among others), have been swamped with arrivals of baby bats that have been rescued. Public misconceptions of these vital mammals to…