CREATE Coalition for research into the evolution of Australian terrestrial ecosystems.


Welcome to the CREATE website. CREATE supports research into the evolution of Australia's Ecosystems. CREATE is a University of New South Wales (UNSW) Foundation.

Our 3 main sites for research programs:

Riversleigh 25 million years of evolution and environmental change in Australia ...	Lightning Ridge tracking down our ancient relatives from the time of the dinosaurs ...	Cape York Amber Rare and precious time-capsules from Australia's tropical past ...

Recent news stories regarding research and projects supported by CREATE

Exciting new finds at Riversleigh
May 14, 2012
A recent trip to remote parts of Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park (which includes the Riversleigh World Heritage area) was highly successful.

Dr Karen Black honoured
May 14, 2012
A key member of the Riversleigh research team, Dr Karen Black, has received the 2012 Dorothy Hill Award for research in the Earth Sciences by the Australian Academy of Science.

Recent publications

Recent publications relating to CREATE projects include the following;

An exceptionally well-preserved short-snouted bandicoot (Marsupialia; Peramelemorphia) from Riversleigh's Oligo-Miocene deposits, northwestern Queensland, Australia by Kenny Travouillon et al. in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Hammer-toothed 'marsupial skinks' from the Australian Cenozoic by Rick Arena et al. in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Australia's first fossil marsupial mole (Notoryctemorphia) resolves controversies about their evolution and palaeoenvironmental origins
by Mike Archer et al. in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
First Crania and Assessment of Species Boundaries in Nimbadon (Marsupialia: Diprotodontidae) from the Middle Miocene of Australia by
Karen Black and Sue Hand in American Museum Novitates
First comprehensive analysis of cranial ontogeny in a fossil marsupial from a 15-million-year-old cave deposit in northern Australia by Karen Black et al. in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology