 Other key scientists involved include Jenny Worthy from Flinders University, Paul Scofield and Vanesa De Pietri from Canterbury Museum, and Alan Tennyson from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.Research is currently funded by Vanesa De Pietri’s Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast Start grant, but this long-running (since 2000) collaborative research programme also includes scientists from the University of New South Wales in Sydney and from the University of Queensland in Brisbane.Surprisingly, given modern New Zealand's dearth of land mammals, there is a basal theriiform mammal, the St Bathans mammal.