Once again I am trying to understand the bonkers #fossil kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, using pics of the incredible Green Waterhole Cave specimen @ South Australian Museum. #paleoart , kangaroo, #mammals peeps! Wanna start a 🧪🧵discussion on sthenurine roos here? How does this roo do?

They’ve only waited 120Ma. A new glimpse into theropod diversity from Early Cretaceous Australia: megaraptorids, an unenlagiine, and for the first time, carcharodontosaurians. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Artwork by Jonathan Metzger. 1/10

Finished today with a nice little job: rebuilding an ulna of the largest-ever kangaroo, Procoptodon goliah. Shame about the missing bit in the middle!

#FossilFriday rearticulated arthrodire placoderm head. Very cool, and not just for playing with the hinges like a suit of armour

A newly found fossil jaw of marsupial giant Palorchestes out of #Melbourne Australia for a Pleistocene #FossilFriday!