Hazel L. Richards

I am a PhD candidate at Monash University and Museums Victoria researching the functional morphology of Australia's extinct marsupial megafauna. I have ten years' experience in comparative anatomy teaching and research, and an undergraduate degree in Science Communication from the University of Western Australia.

I'm interested in what the structure and function of the musculoskeletal systems of living species can tell us about how extinct animals moved, fed and evolved. My work blends traditional anatomical techniques like dissection and comparative description with modern 3D approaches like CT/MRI, biomechanics and morphometrics.