My research concerns the evolutionary development of teeth and jaw amongst early vertebrates, especially in placoderms (armored jawed fish). The morphology and histology of gnathal elements of placoderm fishes reveals a wealth of functional morphological and evolutionary developmetal information, lending to broad inner group comparisons and comparisons with very distantly related lineages or groups that may have few outward resemblances; together challenging the definition of 'true' teeth and shedding light on the evolution of teeth and jaw.

Areas of expertise: Early Vertebrate Evolution, Virtual Paleontology and Scientific Visualization. 

Hu,Y.-Z., Young, G.C.,Lu, J. (2019) The Upper Devonian tetrapodomorph Gogonasus andrewsae from Western Australia: Reconstruction of the shoulder girdle and opercular series using X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography. Palaeoworld.

Hu, Y.-Z., Young, G.C., Burrow, C., Zhu, Y.-A., Lu, J. (2018) Complex morphology of gnathal elements in an Early Devonian arthrodire revealed by high resolution XCT scanning. Palaeoworld, doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2018.12.003.

Hu,Y.-Z.,Lu, J.& Young, G.C. (2017) New findings in a 400 million-year-old Devonian placoderm sheds light on jaw structure and function in basal gnathostomes. Scientific Reports 7, doi:10.1038/s41598017-07674-y.

Burrow, C., Hu, Y.-Z. & Young, G.C. (2016) Placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth: a comment on Rucklin & Donoghue (2015). Biology Letters 12, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2016.0159.

King, B., Hu, Y.-Z. & Long, J. (2018) Electroreception in early vertebrates: survey, evidence and new information. Palaeontology, doi:10.1111/pala.12346. 

Lu, J., Young, G.C., Hu, Y.-Z., Qiao, T., Zhu, M. (2018) The posterior cranial portion of the earliest known Tetrapodomorph Tungsenia paradoxa and the early evolution of tetrapodomorph endocrania. Vertebrata PalAsiatica.

• July 2013- January 2018, Research Officer, Department of Applied Maths, RSPE, The Australian National University, Australia.
• August 2018- Present, Sessional Tutor, Faculty of Science and Technology, The University of Canberra, Australia.
• November 2018- Present, Project Coordinator (digital and scientific visualization), R&D Department, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Science, China.

Canberra Times 2017

Canberra Times 2016

ABC News 2016

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