Mammalogy

Research out of the Hoekstra Lab shows how evolution prepared two species to adopt different survival strategies to take advantage of native habitats. Read about the research in the Harvard Gazette feature "You’re a deer mouse, and bird is diving at you...

The MCZ is pleased to share the news that Hopi Hoekstra, MCZ Curator of Mammalogy, will become the next Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Hopi is currently the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Molecular...

Congratulations to Hopi Hoekstra, MCZ Curator of Mammalogy, appointed the C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts & Sciences. This professorship is the highest honor recognizing scholarly achievement that the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences can bestow upon one...

Congratulations to Curator of Mammalogy, Hopi Hoekstra, one of six recipients of the 2022 Lowell Thomas Award from The Explorers Club. The award is presented to those who have pushed the limits of discovery, knowledge and human endurance, and have...

Research led by Harvard alumna Jenna Tonn revealed how an MCZ exhibition on the genetics of domesticated animals, featuring specimens from Ornithology and Mammalogy, modernized the natural history museum. Read more about the history of early 20 thcentury...

Congratulations to Hopi Hoekstra recipient of the 2019 C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists! The award, established in 1974 to honor outstanding research contributions to mammalogy, is the highest research award presented by the...

Multiple MCZ specimens highlight the Ernst Mayr Library exhibit "Hearing" currently on display in the lobby of the Northwest Building at Harvard.

"The Language of Color" is on display through September 6, 2009 at the HMNH. MCZ specimens are featured that highlight the ways animals use color and shows the role that color has played in evolution. A Harvard Magazine story includes a video tour of the...

Migrating species are represented by MCZ specimens from several departments in a special exhibit at the Cabot Science Library "Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Roaming Caribou Do It: Migration in the Animal Kingdom" through January 2009.

A polar bear mount from the MCZ is on display at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT in an exhibit examining global climate change, which will be open from June to November 2008.