
Kenny Travouillon
Curator of Mammals, Western Australian Museum
Kenny Travouillon is curator of Mammalogy at the Western Australian Museum. He studied Zoology and Palaeontology at the University of New South Wales and graduated with a PhD in 2009. He has worked on various fossil and modern marsupial groups, such as bilbies, bandicoots and kangaroos. He has describing numerous new species, most are from Riversleigh World Heritage Area in north-western Queensland.
Latest articles by Kenny Travouillon

Loads of mammals — including cats — glow under UV light, but we don't know why
By Christine Elizabeth Cooper, Kenny Travouillon, Linette Umbrello, Jemmy Bouzin, Simon Lewis published
Fluorescence found to be extremely common among mammals, and may be the "default status" — but exactly why that is remains unclear, scientists say.
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