News: Honours projects - Emma Sherratt
Diving in the dark: Morphological diversity of subterranean beetles
![subterranean beetles from the Sturt Meadows (SM) calcrete](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-06/subterranean-beetles.jpg?h=09ee5e1b&itok=Q8s0O9m7)
Honours project: Explore a whole new world of living creatures below the surface of the earth.
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What hare is it there? Genetic diversity of Australia’s invasive hares
![Lepus europaeus by Jean-Jacques Boujot from Paris, France](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-06/hare-lepus_europaeus.jpg?h=59aff2be&itok=gPG_sdhp)
Honours project: Help uncover the morphological variation that allows rapid adaptive evolution in two invasive species, the rabbit and hare.
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Muscular anatomy of rabbits and hares
![European rabbits by CSIRO](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-06/csiro_scienceimage_453_european_rabbits.jpg?h=c4dd2c7b&itok=bPVqmimS)
Honours project: Hopping versus running - study the comparative muscular architecture and biomechanics of rabbits and hares.
Slender skinks: The evolution of elongated and limbless lizard bodies
![Gronovi's Dwarf Burrowing Skink (Scelotes gronovii) Image by Marius Burger (Public Domain)](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-06/legless-skink-Scelotes_gronovii.jpg?h=75236aa7&itok=K2jYpLHn)
Honours project: Learn cutting-edge morphometric methods to examine the vertebral column diversity using sphenomorphine skinks.
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Evolution of dietary specialisation and its effect on snake skull shape
![Snake skull](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/snake-skull.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=9IHCevFe)
Honours project: This project explores the evolution of dietary specialisation and its effect on a snake's skull shape.
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Morphological evolution & adaptation of Australia’s rabbits
![Rabbit evolution](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/rabbit-evolution.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=XYAWQehQ)
Honours project: Investigate the morphological evolution and adaptation of Australia’s rabbits.
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Morphological evolution and diversification of the elapid snake radiation
Honours project: Investigate the evolution and diversification of the elapid snake radiation using macroevolutionary analyses of 3D morphometric and ecological data.
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