The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Mr Colin McHenry
School: School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Commenced with Institution: 21-JUL-2003
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Mr Colin McHenry 2009 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects The role of natural selection in macroevolution: a case study examining convergence of form and function in marine predator guilds   277182  

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Moreno Karen, Wroe Stephen, Clausen Philip Douglas, McHenry Colin Richard, D'Amore Domenic C, Rayfield Emily J, Cunningham Eleanor, ’Cranial performance in the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) as revealed by high-resolution 3-D finite element analysis’, Journal of Anatomy, 212 736-746 (2008) [C1]

Bourke Jason, Wroe Stephen, Moreno Karen, McHenry Colin Richard, Clausen Philip Douglas, ’Effects of gape and tooth position on bite force and skull stress in the dingo (Canis lupus dingo) using a 3-dimensional finite element approach’, PLoS ONE, 3 e2200 (2008) [C1]

Clausen Philip Douglas, Wroe Stephen, McHenry Colin Richard, Moreno Karen, Bourke Jason, ’The vector of jaw muscle force as determined by computer-generated three dimensional simulation: A test of Greaves' model’, Journal of Biomechanics, 41 3184-3188 (2008) [C1]

Wroe S, Huber D R, Lowry M, McHenry Colin Richard, Moreno K, Clausen Philip Douglas, Ferrara T L, Cunningham E, Dean M N, Summers A P, ’Three-dimensional computer analysis of white shark jaw mechanics: How hard can a great white bite?’, Journal of Zoology, 276 336-342 (2008) [C1]

Wroe S, Clausen Philip Douglas, McHenry Colin Richard, Moreno K, Cunningham E, ’Computer simulation of feeding behaviour in the thylacine and dingo as a novel test for convergence and niche overlap’, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B-Biological Sciences, 274 2819-2828 (2007) [C1]

Wroe S, Moreno K, Clausen Philip Douglas, McHenry Colin Richard, Curnoe D, ’High-resolution three-dimensional computer simulation of hominid cranial mechanics’, Anatomical Record - Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, 290 1248-1255 (2007) [C1]

McHenry Colin Richard, Wroe S, Clausen Philip Douglas, Moreno K, Cunningham E, ’Supermodeled sabercat, predatory behavior in Smilodon fatalis revealed by high-resolution 3D computer simulation’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104 16010-16015 (2007) [C1]

McHenry Colin Richard, Clausen Philip Douglas, Daniel W J T, Meers M B, Pendharkar Atul, ’Biomechanics of the rostrum in crocodilians: A comparative analysis using finite-element modeling’, Anatomical Record Part A - Discoveries in Molecular Cellular and Evolutionary Biology, 288A 827-849 (2006) [C1]

Wroe S, McHenry Colin Richard, Thomason J, ’Bite club: comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa’, Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 272 619-625 (2005) [C1]

McHenry Colin Richard, Cook A G, Wroe S, ’Bottom-feeding plesiosaurs (Brevia - short article)’, Science, 310 75-75 (2005) [C3]

Conference Publication

Wroe S, Clausen Philip Douglas, McHenry Colin Richard, Moreno K, ’Finite element modeling of feeding behavior in the thylacine and wolf: A novel test for convergence’, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas (2007) [E3]

Moreno K, Wroe S, McHenry Colin Richard, Clausen Philip Douglas, D'Amore D, ’Komodo dragon cranial mechanics and kinesis as revealed by high-resolution finite element analysis (Poster)’, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas (2007) [E3]

McHenry Colin Richard, Cunningham E, Wroe S, Pendharkar Atul, Clausen Philip Douglas, ’A biomechanical model of Smilodon fatalis based on finite element analysis (Poster presentation)’, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario (2006) [E3]

Meers M, McHenry Colin Richard, ’Kinematic analysis of strike behavior in crocodylians: Implications for the evolution of cranial morphology and ecology’, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario (2006) [E3]

Cook A, McHenry Colin Richard, Wroe S, Evans M, ’Plesiosaur taphonomy - Feeding behaviours and sternal baskets’, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario (2006) [E3]

McHenry Colin Richard, Macfarlane Geoffrey Robert, ’Odysseys in Pastryland - a bird's eye view of microevolution’, Uniserve Science 2005 Symposium. Blended Learning: Design and implementation, Sydney (2005) [E3]

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