100-Million-Year-Old Fossils From Australia Reveal Three New Species of Monotreme sciencetimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencetimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published today in the Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, evidence of an "Age of Monotremes" has been unearthed by a team of Australian scientists at the Australian Museum (AM), Museums Victoria and Australian Opal Centre.
The "echidnapus" is one of the newly described ancient monotremes from a fossil hotspot in NSW that could give us more clues about an era when egg-laying mammals diversified.
Chloe Read has worked in education policy for over 15 years, originally in IT support and consulting in the Department of Education, Tasmania. Ms Read joined the NSW Department of Education (DoE) in 2014, working across many executive IT, infrastructure and policy roles. Ms Read job shares the role of Deputy Secretary, Education & Skills Reform with Lisa Alonso Love, and represents the Department on the WRN as well as being an ex officio member of the NSW Skills Board. Ms Read and Ms Alonso Love previously job shared as Chief People Officer and Deputy Secretary, Educational Services in DoE. Ms Read holds an Master of Arts with Honours in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh, a Masters of Computing from the University of Tasmania and is a member of the Executive Fellows Program at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).