William Parker

PhD Candidate, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute

Core expertise

Animal teeth

Biography

William is a PhD Candidate at Monash University and Museums Victoria. He studies the composition and structure of teeth to understand the lives of living and extinct animals. Most of his work focuses on Australian marsupials and marine mammals.

articles

The evolutionary discovery that came as a turtle surprise

A five-million-year-old fossil that sat in a Melbourne museum for more than a century has rewritten the history of turtles in prehistoric Australia’s tropical climate.

Science