Abc Australia
Abc Australia
@abcaustralia·443K subscribers·5K videos

Extinct Australian predator ate megafauna for breakfast | ABC Australia

Posted

May 17, 2021

Views

21,851

Likes

128

Comments

4

Engagement

0.60%

Search the Record

Indexed

Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.

Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.

Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line

YouTube Description

as posted by the channel

Subscribe ✅ and tap the notification bell 🔔 to be delivered Australian stories every day

What’s eight million years old, eats oversized flightless birds and is one of the last endemic Australian crocodiles to wander our continent?

Baru's skull was found in 2009 at the Alcoota fossil beds in Central Australia and holds many secrets.

Dr Adam Yates is the Senior Curator of Earth Sciences at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and he says that this skull, despite being millions of years old, is a new species.

Join the ABC Australia community on social media!

This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel.

********

Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use (Section 3).

Guests & Subjects Covered

Central AustraliaDr Adam YatesSenior CuratorEarth SciencesArt GalleryNorthern TerritoryFacebook Twitter Instagram ThisAustralian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube

Sentinel Indexing in Progress

Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.

All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.