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Scott Hocknull is a vertebrate palaeontologist and Senior Curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He was the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award.
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- From dig to digital breaking the rules of museums scott hocknull tedxqut
- Recreating Lark Quarry footprints
- Career
- Awards
- References
He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera.
Scott Hucknull (1977-) was born in Darwin, Northern Territory. His family moved to Brisbane when he was 12. He enrolled in a B.Sc. at the University of Queensland in 1996, majoring in zoology and geology. He took his degree with Honours in 2000.
Recreating Lark Quarry footprints
Career
Hucknull worked at the Queensland Museum during his university studies. After graduation he became a curator in geosciences at the Queensland Museum. He became senior curator in 2002.
He took his doctorate from the University of New South Wales, in 2009.