megafauna

Go Extinct! Megafauna was developed by CABAH (Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) Chief Investigator Dr Vera Weisbecker, an evolutionary biologist at Flinders University. Vera spoke on the Big Brekky Show about how she developed this Australia-focused edition of the game with STEM education game designer Dr Ariel Marcy, who created the original Go Extinct game. Beautiful artwork provided by Nellie Pease. Go Extinct! Megafauna is a curriculum-aligned STEM educational card game about Australia’s megafauna and the evolutionary relationships between species. All are welcome at the launch on Saturday 7 June at Megafauna Central, Mparntwe.

A new mural is to be painted at Megafauna Central that will help you step into a prehistoric world of when megafauna roamed. Sydney artist, Peter Schouten, and Adam Yates, Megafauna Central's own senior palaeontologist, chat with The Big Brekky about the project. Peter has visited the Alcoota fossil beds, and was asked by Adam to create a mural of megafauna that would have been found at that site. Peter has been working on the mural for 6 days already, and particularly delights in painting creatures that either cannot or have not been photographed, due to extinction or rarity.

What a HUGELY SUCCESSFUL launch event! Such a great job done by Museums & Art Galleries NT, NT Government and...