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The Evans EvoMorph Lab has worked on many fun and fascinating projects over the years. Here's a short selection of highlights from projects ranging from 3D scanning of animals and fossils, from behavioural experiments with snakes and Tasmanian devils.
Supported by School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Some of scientific publications out of this work:
Cleuren SGC, Rule JP, Ksas R, Herrel A, Hocking DP, and Evans AR. 2025. Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes. Journal of Experimental Biology 228: jeb250347.
Garland KLS, Hay EM, Field DJ, and Evans AR. 2025. Common developmental origins of beak shapes and evolution in theropods. iScience 28: 112246.
Parker WMG, Adams JW, Hocking DP, Fitzgerald EMG, Shaw G, Renfree MB, and Evans AR. 2025. Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Trace Elemental Indicators of Life History in Marsupial Teeth. Biological Trace Element Research 203: 4607-4619.
Pollock TI, Deakin WJ, Chatar N, Carmona PSM, Rovinsky DS, Panagiotopoulou O, Parker WMG, Adams JW, Hocking DP, Donoghue PCJ, Rayfield EJ, and Evans AR. 2025. Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme "saber-tooth"morphology. Current Biology 35: 455–467.
Nasrullah Q, Renfree M, and Evans AR. 2022. From embryo to adult: the complete development and unusual replacement of the dentition of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29: 515-529.
Pollock TI, Hocking DP, Hunter DO, Parrott ML, Zabinskas M, and Evans AR. 2022. Torn limb from limb: the ethology of prey-processing in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). Australian Mammalogy 44: 126–138.
Evans AR, Pollock TI, Cleuren SGC, Parker WMG, Richards HL, Garland KLS, Fitzgerald EMG, Wilson TE, Hocking DP, and Adams JW. 2021. A universal power law for modelling the growth and form of teeth, claws, horns, thorns, beaks, and shells. BMC Biology 19: 58.
Evans AR, Daly ES, Catlett KK, Paul KS, King SJ, Skinner MM, Nesse HP, Hublin J-J, Townsend GC, Schwartz GT, and Jernvall J. 2016. A simple rule governs the evolution and development of hominin tooth size. Nature 530: 477-480.
Hocking DP, Evans AR, and Fitzgerald EMG. 2013. Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) use suction and filter feeding when hunting small prey underwater. Polar Biology 36: 211-222.
The Evans EvoMorph Lab has worked on many fun and fascinating projects over the years. Here's a short selection of highlights from projects ranging from 3D scanning of animals and fossils, from behavioural experiments with snakes and Tasmanian devils.
Supported by School of Biological Sciences, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Some of scientific publications out of this work:
Cleuren SGC, Rule JP, Ksas R, Herrel A, Hocking DP, and Evans AR. 2025. Kinematics of strikes in venomous snakes. Journal of Experimental Biology 228: jeb250347.
Garland KLS, Hay EM, Field DJ, and Evans AR. 2025. Common developmental origins of beak shapes and evolution in theropods. iScience 28: 112246.
Parker WMG, Adams JW, Hocking DP, Fitzgerald EMG, Shaw G, Renfree MB, and Evans AR. 2025. Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Trace Elemental Indicators of Life History in Marsupial Teeth. Biological Trace Element Research 203: 4607-4619.
Pollock TI, Deakin WJ, Chatar N, Carmona PSM, Rovinsky DS, Panagiotopoulou O, Parker WMG, Adams JW, Hocking DP, Donoghue PCJ, Rayfield EJ, and Evans AR. 2025. Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme "saber-tooth"morphology. Current Biology 35: 455–467.
Nasrullah Q, Renfree M, and Evans AR. 2022. From embryo to adult: the complete development and unusual replacement of the dentition of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29: 515-529.
Pollock TI, Hocking DP, Hunter DO, Parrott ML, Zabinskas M, and Evans AR. 2022. Torn limb from limb: the ethology of prey-processing in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii). Australian Mammalogy 44: 126–138.
Evans AR, Pollock TI, Cleuren SGC, Parker WMG, Richards HL, Garland KLS, Fitzgerald EMG, Wilson TE, Hocking DP, and Adams JW. 2021. A universal power law for modelling the growth and form of teeth, claws, horns, thorns, beaks, and shells. BMC Biology 19: 58.
Evans AR, Daly ES, Catlett KK, Paul KS, King SJ, Skinner MM, Nesse HP, Hublin J-J, Townsend GC, Schwartz GT, and Jernvall J. 2016. A simple rule governs the evolution and development of hominin tooth size. Nature 530: 477-480.
Hocking DP, Evans AR, and Fitzgerald EMG. 2013. Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) use suction and filter feeding when hunting small prey underwater. Polar Biology 36: 211-222.
