Tea Maho
Ph.D. Student · University of Toronto
Investigating the dentition, growth patterns, and bone histology of early amniotes and synapsids — unlocking 250-million-year-old stories written in fossil bone.
Fossil bone thin-section · Polarized light microscopy
Research Highlights
Current Work
Tea’s doctoral research focuses on the evolutionary morphology of early amniotes from the Permian period, with an emphasis on dental biology and bone histology. Working in the Reisz Lab at the University of Toronto, she combines micro-CT scanning, thin-section histology, and scientific illustration to reconstruct growth patterns and feeding strategies in deep time.
Recent work has shed light on the remarkably rapid tooth replacement in monitor lizards and described novel aspects of heterodonty in early Permian synapsids — findings with broad implications for our understanding of vertebrate dental evolution.
“Using bone histology, CT scanning, and scientific illustration, Tea reconstructs the biology of animals that lived over 250 million years ago.”
DEPT. OF ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO