• 2. Koolasuchus

  • May 23 2023
  • Length: 42 mins
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  • Meet Koolasuchus cleelandi, a giant amphibian from the Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia (~125 million years ago) with the body of a salamander and a head as big as a wheelie bin lid. An animal that by all rights, SHOULD have gone extinct millions of years ago and chosen by the people as the state fossil emblem for Victoria.

    We hear from two of the brilliant paleontologists who worked on the holotype, fossil preparator Lesley Kool and prospector Mike cleeland.

    We deviate and also talk red and white blood-cell like structures in the Jurassic ichthyosaur Stenopterygius.

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