Herpetology

Get to know José Rosado, Curatorial Associate in Herpetology, in the Harvard Gazette's staff profile. Read the article and see the interview here.

A video about the Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Initiative, featured in the HMNH's exhibit EVOLUTION, is available to view online. The film includes interviews with E.O. Wilson, Jim Hanken, Gonzalo Giribet, and Brian Farrell.

Undergrad Jeremy Hsu blogs about his spring break field trip to Costa Rica with OEB 167: Herpetology, taught by Jim Hanken and Jonathan Losos. Posted April 06, 2010

Combining models with specimens from multiple MCZ departments, the new Marine Life exhibit in the Harvard Museum of Natural History immerses visitors in the New England coastal water environment and presents research from around the world. Read more about...

A recent article in Biology Letters by Thomas Sanger, a former MCZ postdoc, resolves the evolutionary history of the penis. Sanger examined MCZ's precious collection of Victorian-era histological slides of tuatara embryos for his research, which concludes...

Jonathan Losos and his colleagues study the evolution of anole lizard species that were caught in amber millions of years ago. They hope to find out how these lizards lived, and to compare them to species that are alive today. Read more in the Harvard...

MCZ specimens from four research collections are on display in the "South American Hall" exhibit in the HMNH.

Jim Hanken discusses "Linking Collections Globally for Research and Education: The Digital Worm" in a panel discussion on Objects and Collections, a part of the "University As Collector" symposium organized by the Radcliffe Institute. (Prof. Hanken's talk...

MCZ Graduate students, Lenora Bittleson, in the Naomi Pierce Lab and Shane Campbell-Staton, in the Losos Lab, are two of seven Harvard graduate students chosen to present their work at the Harvard Horizons Symposium. Read more in the Harvard Gazette...

Jim Hanken weighs in on the state of natural history collections and their impact on tracking biodiversity using new technologies in a recent article in Nature.