Herpetology

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...

MCZ Curator of Herpetology James Hanken was interviewed by Harvard Magazine to discuss the causes and status of the ongoing amphibian extinction crisis, including his own work within the field. Harvard Professor James Hanken on the Amphibian Extinction...

A recent paper in Nature, Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats, was co-authored by Sonali Garg, a Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow in James Hanken's lab at the MCZ and Sathyabhama Das Biju, a Harvard Radcliffe...

A new study published in Science shares a groundbreaking database aimed at addressing 21st century challenges. The MCZ is among the 73 participating natural history museums and herbaria from 28 countries. MCZ Director Gonzalo Giribet , former director and...

For the first time in 133 years a new species of boa has been discovered in the Dominican Republic, published in the MCZ journal Breviora, by Miguel A. Landestoy, R. Graham Reynolds and Robert W. Henderson. From UNC Asheville: For the first time in over a...

Listen to Twenty years of the MCZ with James Hanken, outgoing Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the latest podcast from the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. In HMSC Connects! podcasts, Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four...

M. Brent Hawkins, a recent doctoral recipient in the Hanken Lab, and colleagues from Boston Children's Hospital, examined what is occurring at the genetic level to drive different patterns in the fin skeleton versus the limb skeleton. The research is...

A new species of Sri Lankan frog described by Madhava Meegaskumbara, postdoctoral fellow, is on 2008 List of Top 10 New Species of the International Institute for Species Exploration. IISE Web story, 5/23/2008.

Research by Yoel Stuart, former graduate student in the Losos Lab, describes rapid evolution of toe pads in green anoles in the October 24 issue of Science. Read more about the study in the Harvard Gazette.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has released a new short film, The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree, featuring Jonathan Losos. Shot on location in the Caribbean, Losos demonstrates the traits that enable dozens of anole species to...