We would like to thank the following people and institutions for their generosity in providing access to skeletal material: Denise Donlon, Jennifer Menzies and the teaching collection at the Shellshear Museum, the University of Sydney; Marcus Robinson, Department of Anatomy and Histology, the University of Sydney; the Department of Archaeology, teaching collection, and the Department of Zoology, the University of Sydney; Sandy Ingleby, the Australian Museum; Mathew Lowe, the University Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge; Kimberlee Newman and Mark Moore, University of New England; Jennifer Wells, and the Australian Research Council (DP0985375). Thank you also to Jillian Garvey, Jennifer Menzies and one anonymous reviewer for valuable comments on the manuscript. Finally, thank you to Professor Peter Hiscock for making this book a reality.