Pleistocene Environments of Mt. Etna / Capricorn Caves
Series of 5 digital paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Capricorn Caves, Australia, 2024
Scientific curator: Dr. Scott Hocknull

A series of five large-scale digital murals reconstructing the changing ecosystems of the Mt. Etna–Capricorn Caves region in Queensland across the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Each work depicts the same karst landscape and cave system at different time intervals, documenting a progressive environmental shift from closed rainforest to increasingly open and arid habitats.

The compositions were created as exhibition backdrops for fossil and subfossil material, with key taxa reconstructed for potential stand-alone educational use. The series integrates major Pleistocene fauna, including Thylacine, Diprotodon, and Megalania, within a continuous karst landscape centered on the Speaking Tube Cave system.