#nimbadon

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

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.

[gaetaniu]

Questi giganteschi orsi con pollice opponibile un tempo scalavano gli alberi in Australia. Ma come hanno fatto a diventare così grandi?

Ricostruzione di una madre e di un bambino Nimbadon. Avevano braccia potenti, mani e piedi grandi ed enormi artigli che li aiutavano ad arrampicarsi sulle cime degli alberi della foresta pluviale. Anche se morti da tempo, gli scheletri fossili offrono un’incredibile finestra sullo stile di vita e sull���ambiente di un animale estinto. Analizzando le varie caratteristiche delle ossa fossili…

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from this #paleostream

Scalenodontoides, Nimbadon and Mystacodon (with protocetid calf).

[idle-speculation]

I will forever be sad that the planned pre-production Riversleigh-focused episode of Walking With Beasts was cut. I want my Australian megafauna and I want it now.

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.