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Destructive Sampling

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The MCZ Destructive Sampling Policy is a museum-wide policy that outlines the approval of research (including loans) involving procedures that result in the permanent removal of material from an MCZ specimen. Individual collections may have more stringent...

Database

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The MCZ contains over 21-million specimens in ten research collections. Many of these collections have their specimen data captured and accessible for analyses, such as georeferencing. Data capture for the remaining collections within the MCZ is an...

Elsa Goerig

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Dr. Elsa Goerig graduated from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS, Québec city) in 2017, her PhD thesis focusing on stream connectivity and brook trout movements through man-made barriers. She is a researcher at the MCZ since 2017...

Bio-inspired structure could improve aerodynamic performance

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MCZ faculty-curator George Lauder and postdoc Mehdi Saadat were part of a team of evolutionary biologists and engineers that demonstrated a bio-inspired structure that could improve aerodynamic performance of airplanes, wind turbines, drones, and cars...

DNA reconstructed for an extinct species

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Members of the Edwards Lab used a museum specimen to reconstruct the DNA of the extinct little bush moa, a flightless bird driven to extinction 700 years ago. Read more about the project in Scientific American.

The Origins of Creativity

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MCZ Faculty-Curator Emeritus E.O. Wilson discusses his latest book, The Origins of Creativity, with the Harvard Gazette.

3D Image of Blaschka Sea Anemone

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For the last 4 years, Peter Fried, an expert in archival-quality 3D imaging at NYU, has been scanning and making 3D models of Blaschka marine invertebrates from the MCZ and Cornell University collections. His newest model is of a 3.5-inch glass model of a...