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42 results for "Invertebrate Paleontology"
Invertebrate Paleontology History
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The MCZ opened in 1859, the same year that Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species. Though not the largest collection in America, it contains the most diverse and significant holdings of classical (and often beautifully prepared) material from...
Harvard Alumni tour of Paleontology collections
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Curatorial Associate Jessica Cundiff gave a behind the scenes tour of the Invertebrate and Vertebrate Paleontology collections to a lucky group of visiting Harvard Alumni. Jessica showed them notable specimens such as an authentic Kronosaurus skull...
Rare crab in amber offers evolution clues
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Javier Luque, postdoc in the Javier Ortega-Hernández Lab and MCZ Invertebrate Paleontology, speaks with the Harvard Gazette about research from him and an international team of researchers published in Science Advances.
MCZ objects featured in the new Harvard Art Museums exhibit, The Philosophy Chamber
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The Harvard Art Museums have recreated a historical cabinet of curiosities in the exhibit The Philosophy Chamber featuring MCZ specimens from Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate Paleontology and Ornithology collections. Read more info in the Harvard...
Javier Ortega-Hernández receives NSF CAREER award
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Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Javier Ortega-Hernández, recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award! This award is in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research...
Javier Ortega-Hernández featured in Harvard Magazine's Five Questions
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Javier Ortega-Hernández, MCZ Faculty-Curator in Invertebrate Paleontology, is featured in Harvard Magazine's Five Questions. Five Questions with Javier Ortega-Hernández: A professor of evolutionary biology on what shaped life more than 500 million years...
Javier Ortega-Hernández Granted National Researcher Level I
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Congratulations to incoming MCZ Faculty-Curator in Invertebrate Paleontology, Javier Ortega-Hernández, granted the distinction of Investigador Nacional Nivel 1 (National Researcher Level I) by the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National System of...
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Hallucigenia's diet illuminates the ecology of Cambrian lobopodians Javier Ortega-Hernández Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology The armoured lobopodian Hallucigenia embodies the seemingly uncanny...
New fossil demonstrates novel arthropod brain preservation
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In The Conversation MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Javier Ortega-Hernández, and colleagues talk about their recent work and discovery of a new preservation method of soft tissue in a fossil arthropod. The work is published in Geology...
Cyrus Green
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Cyrus is a paleontologist who has dug fossils throughout North America. Cyrus earned an MS in paleontology from Fort Hays State University in Kansas studying the growth rates of basal mosasaurids. Afterwards he received a scholarship from the National...