Zoologist, his field work on hold, falls for wildlife bird photography

April 15, 2021

With field work on hold during the pandemic, MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Gonzalo Giribet discovered a passion (and incredible eye) for bird photography.... Read more about Zoologist, his field work on hold, falls for wildlife bird photography

Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

April 13, 2021

Brenda Tindal, an award-winning educator and scholar from the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., has been named executive director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Read the full announcement in the Harvard Gazette. Read more about Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

Javier Ortega-Hernández receives NSF CAREER award

April 8, 2021

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 and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations' missions.

Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy

April 1, 2021

The MCZ community is welcome to attend the webinar/panel discussion regarding Louis Agassiz:

Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Online

How do we confront the history and legacy of Louis Agassiz’s extensive archive of images of African and Indigenous Brazilians made...

black and white image of a woman working in the entomology collection, ca. 1890

Women of the Museum, 1860–1920: Behind-the-Screens at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

March 31, 2021

The Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC) celebrates Women’s History Month with the online exhibit Women of the Museum, 1860–1920: Behind-the-Screens at the Museum of Comparative Zoology which features extensive materials from the Ernst Mayr Library Special Collections and Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Through her careful research on the roles, lives, working...

a jar of Spotted Trunkfish in the Ichthyology collection

Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

March 29, 2021

Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

MCZ's Faculty-Curator of Ornithology Scott Edwards, and other museum staff around the country, talk to NPR about current programs to make specimen data available online.

Vertebrae from a Dinodontosaurus, an extinct forerunner to mammals, in the collection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution

March 16, 2021

Read about research led by former postdoc Katrina Jones, working in the Stephanie Pierce lab and MCZ Vertebrate Paleontology, in the Harvard... Read more about Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution

Nature as Artist, a virtual tour at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

March 15, 2021

Nature as Artist is a new virtual tour from the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). It features objects and specimens from the three museum collections on display in the HMNH, including the MCZ.

Nature has long inspired we humans to imagine and create art. Dancers, designers, musicians, painters, and sculptors—they are all found in the natural world. Take this virtual journey through the exhibit galleries of the Harvard Museum of...

Understanding how evolution shaped the insect visual system

February 25, 2021

Marjorie Liénard and MCZ Faculty-Curator of Entomology, Naomi Pierce, led a study to develop an in vitro method for probing what colors an insect sees. The research was pulished in PNAS and featured in the... Read more about Understanding how evolution shaped the insect visual system

Can a fin become a limb?

February 19, 2021

M. Brent Hawkins, a recent doctoral recipient in the Hanken Lab, and colleagues from Boston Children's Hospital, examined what is occurring at the genetic level to drive different patterns in the fin skeleton versus the limb skeleton. The research is published in Cell and featured in ... Read more about Can a fin become a limb?

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Zoologist, his field work on hold, falls for wildlife bird photography

Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

Javier Ortega-Hernández receives NSF CAREER award

Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy

Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy

Women of the Museum, 1860–1920: Behind-the-Screens at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution

Nature as Artist, a virtual tour at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Understanding how evolution shaped the insect visual system

Can a fin become a limb?

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