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Congratulations to Mandë Holford, incoming MCZ Curator in Malacology and Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor, who was elected a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! Election as a Fellow honors...

From the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: Mandë Holford, a leader in venom research currently at City University of New York's Hunter College, will join OEB in July 2025 as Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator in...

The Transmitter featured the newest Bulletin of the MCZ, about our R. Glenn Northcutt Collection of Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy and Embryology. A comprehensive inventory of the entire collection appears in a paper by Hanken and his colleagues...

Research by Nicole Mejia, ’22 ( Edwards Lab) on the effects of plastic in live wedge-tailed shearwaters is featured by Hawaiʻi Public Radio. The project was funded by an MCZ Grants-in-aid of Undergraduate Research grant and Wetmore Colles funding...

From the Harvard Gazette, Big discovery about microscopic ‘water bears’: Bit of happenstance, second look at ancient fossils leads to new insights into evolution of tardigrade, one of most indestructible life forms on planet They may be microscopic, but...

From the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: A Whale of A Tail: Unraveling the evolutionary secrets of how whales and dolphins adapted their backbones for aquatic life If you’ve ever seen a dolphin swim, you may have wondered why they...

From the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: In a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, research scientist Rudy Lerosey-Aubril and Professor and Curator in Invertebrate Paleontology Javier Ortega-Hernández present their finding...

MCZ Associate S.D. Biju , Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow Sonali Garg and Research Professor James Hanken were part of an Indo-American team of biologists from the University of Delhi and Zoological Survey of India, Harvard University, and the University...

Research from former MCZ postdoc Gerard Talavera, colleagues, and MCZ Curator of Lepidoptera, Naomi Pierce, demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. This incredible feat for insects took a diverse team of researchers and methods...

Scott V. Edwards, professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and MCZ's curator of ornithology, is the senior author of the published genome of the little bush moa, an extinct, flightless bird. “We can study modern birds by looking...