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MCZ receives 13,000 year old mastodon

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The MCZ has received the partial skeleton of a 13,000-year-old mastodon excavated from a site in upstate New York. The Bowser Road mastodon, nicknamed John Charles, was donated by the three investigators responsible for excavating and reporting the find...

From molecular genetics to meta-analysis: understanding how conservation management impacts threatened species

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Catherine Grueber University of Sydney San Diego Zoo Global postdoctoral fellow

The evolution of gene expression: from diploidy to development and sex chromosomes

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Thomas Lenormand Radcliffe Institute / CNRS Montpellier (with a short introduction on PCI Evol Biol, a new way of publishing)

Matt Gage

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James McCarthy is a co-recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

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Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator, James McCarthy, co-recipient of this year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Professor McCarthy and Paul Falkowski (Rutgers University) were recognized for their decades of leadership in understanding -...

New species of arachnid found in ancient amber

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MCZ Faculty-Curator Gonzalo Giribet co-authored one of two papers describing a new species of extinct arachnid. Notable for its long tail, similar to that of a scorpion, it closes a 170 million year gap in the fossil record. Read more in The Scientist

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...

2016-2017 MCZ Annual Report is Now Available

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The 2016-2017 MCZ Annual Report is now available. Read about special projects completed during the year, faculty, staff and student awards, headline-making research, and more.

Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Biodiversity and Extinction Risks across Amphibians and Squamates

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João Filipe Riva Tonini Edwards/Pierce Labs, OEB

Hybridization reveals the genes for migration and color in an avian radiation

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David Toews Postdoctoral Fellow Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Carl Gregory Schmitt

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Donna Schmitt

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