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Crash Bandicoot (species)
''Crash bandicoot'' is an extinct bandicoot, known from fossils located at the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northeast Australia. Taxonomy The primary etymology is a reference to the eponymous character of the video game franchise Crash Bandicoot, and the gender of the genus name ''Crash'' is stated to be masculine. The description for a new species of Riversleigh fauna was published in 2014, the authors proposing the specific epithet for the resemblance to the modern peramelid family of bandicoot and the generic term "crash" for the unexpected appearance of the taxon at a Riversleigh site from the Miocene epoch. The authors state this secondary allusion is to the species "crashing" out of a region of wet rainforest and radiating in the semiarid to arid habitat favoured by the modern species of bandicoots. Description A genus known by a single species, ''Crash bandicoot'' is recognised as an early representative of a Peramelidae, peramelid lineage that separated from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Archer (paleontologist)
Professor Michael Archer AM, FAA, Dist FRSN (born 1945, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian paleontologist specialising in Australian vertebrates. He is a professor at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales. His previous appointments include Director of the Australian Museum 1999–2004 and Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales 2004–2009. Education and career Archer was born in Sydney but raised in the United States and studied at Princeton University. From 1972 to 1978, he was the curator of mammals at the Queensland Museum. Since 1983, he has been involved with the exploration of the Riversleigh fossil site in Queensland. He is opposed to creationism and regularly engages in active debates with creationists. During his time as director of the Australian Museum, he was the initiator of attempts to clone the ''Thylacinus cynocephalus'', the Tasmanian tiger, an animal extinct since 1936. Archer has stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
