Get to know Museums Victoria’s palaeontology team—the scientists studying and preserving the fossils of extinct animals and plants.
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Senior Curator
Vertebrate Palaeontology
Dr Erich Fitzgerald is one of Museums Victoria’s senior palaeontologists. Most of his research explores the fossil record of marine mammals—one of the last frontiers for palaeontology in Australia.
Curatorial Research Assistant
Palaeontology
Hazel’s work focuses on extinct megafauna—the giant marsupials that once roamed Australia. But she has always been fascinated by big animals like the Melbourne Museum’s new Triceratops.
Collection Manager
Vertebrate Palaeontology
From bones to teeth to footprints, Tim Zeigler is responsible for preparing and preserving Museums Victoria’s vertebrate fossil collection. He’s fascinated by the stories that fossils can tell about the past.
Curatorial Research Assistant
Palaeontology
James is a palaeontologist with a special interest in seals and the evolution of underwater adaptations, but it’s dinosaurs that were his childhood obsession.
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