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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...

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...

New issue of Breviora available

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The latest issue of Breviora documents the first living individuals of a species previously only known from deceased specimens collected over 50 years ago. Rediscovery and a Redescription of the Crooked-Acklins Boa, Chilabothrus schwartzi is available on...