Today I had the pleasure of attending the opening of Engawala Art Centre. Engawala is an Aboriginal community very close to the Alcoota fossil site. We have been working together with the artists of Engawala, to sell some of their work at Megafauna Central, and bringing the artists to the fossils so that they may create create Alcoota-themed works. 1/2

#MegafaunaCentral #AboriginalArt #Alcoota #EngawalaArtCentre

While systematically sorting through our Alcoota collection @Samosthenurus discovered we have the associated femur and tibia of a teeny-weeny Dromornis chick

#MegafaunaCentral #Alcoota #Miocene #FossilFriday #BirdsOfMastodon

A couple of months back I had the pleasure of meeting David Strassman, who I found out is an avid palaeontology enthusiast. We had a grand old time wandering #MegaFaunaCentral and ended up recording an episode for his podcast: https://www.paleonerds.com/podcast/adamyates
Check it out if you want hear more about central Australian geology and the Alcoota fossil site.

#Alcoota

For this weeks #FossilFriday I have the skull of a rather vanilla diprotodontid, Kolopsis torus, from Alcoota. Hundreds of individuals of this species are buried at Alcoota. This one is now on public display at #MegafaunaCentral . Come see it next time you are in #AliceSprings

I might kick-off with posting some of my #palaeoart
This is Pyramios alcootense from the Alcoota fossil site. I drew this for a display at #MegafaunaCentral