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Professor Kris Helgen's career has taken him to volcanic craters in Papua New Guinea, savannah grasslands of Kenya, and ventured deep into the forests of the Andes.
The chief scientist at the Australian Museum Research Institute helped name and discover around 100 species of mammal, many of which were sitting undiscovered in the dark depths of museum storage facilities.
His latest research published in the Australasian Journal of Palaeontology completely flips the narrative on where we think mammals came from, and instead places Australia at the heart of the emergence of mammal evolution.
Kris talks to Kathryn about where his fascination with mammals comes from, how his latest research could turn 200 years of study on its head and how he got so good at finding new species.
