dicksmithi fed on the rainforest plants that covered ... She says there would have been a range of koala species in the Riversleigh region at the time, with each species having its own niche ...

The fossil koalas share similar large bony ear structures to the modern koala and would have been well adapted to detecting vocalisations in the rainforest environment of Riversleigh in the ...

"It's an animal we don't think we've seen before up at Riversleigh, so it was quite ... dwelling crocodiles and primitive ancestors of the koala and wombat. Many of its thousands of species ...

A 20-million-year old koala skull found at Riversleigh in Queensland represents a new species. A 20-MILLION-YEAR-OLD koala skull from Queensland is a new species, which researchers have named after ...

Riversleigh is a remarkable natural history ... of so many of its occupants throughout its long transition from lush rainforest to woodland lie immortalised in the rocks all around you.

Riversleigh provides exceptional, and in many cases unique, mammal assemblages from the Oligocene to Miocene, spanning from 10-30 million years ago. These assemblages document changes in habitat from ...

Researchers report that the new kangaroo species were discovered in ancient fossil deposits at the Riversleigh World ... to the environmental change from rainforest to more open forest and ...

With this find, the researchers have determined that at least three different marsupial lions were co-existing in the ancient Riversleigh rainforest. "This level of diversity is unmatched for the ...

The fossil remains of a new tiny species of marsupial lion which prowled the lush rainforests of northern Australia about 18 million years ago have been unearthed in the Riversleigh World Heritage ...

"It's an animal we don't think we've seen before up at Riversleigh, so it was quite ... dwelling crocodiles and primitive ancestors of the koala and wombat. Many of its thousands of species ...

In the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in north ... Schouten of Microleo attenboroughi prowling along the branches of rainforest trees in search of prey. Image credit: Peter Schouten Size ...