Study captures one of the clearest pictures yet of how evolution works in vertebrates February 11, 2019New research on mice coloration and habitat led by MCZ Faculty-Curator Hopi Hoekstra captures one of the clearest pictures yet of how evolution works in vertebrates. The study was published in Science and highlighted by the... Read more about Study captures one of the clearest pictures yet of how evolution works in vertebrates
Study shows lungless salamanders’ skin expresses protein crucial for lung function January 31, 2019A recent study by Zachary Lewis (PhD '16) and MCZ Faculty-Curator James Hanken shows lungless salamanders’ skin expresses protein crucial for lung function. Read about the research in Science and the... Read more about Study shows lungless salamanders’ skin expresses protein crucial for lung function
George Lauder awarded Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology January 23, 2019Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator George V. Lauder, 2018 Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology recipient! Awarded by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, "In pushing the boundaries of the field of ichthyology, the awardee has created a truly remarkable and diverse body of work that has had, and will continue to have, wide-ranging... Read more about George Lauder awarded Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology
Thousands of fossilized fish teeth analyzed to discover periods of extinction and evolution November 26, 2018Elizabeth Sibert, a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows woriking the the Lauder Lab, studied thousands of tiny fossilized fish teeth to discover how fish responded to the astroid impact that initiated a mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Read about how she collected the teeth, more about her... Read more about Thousands of fossilized fish teeth analyzed to discover periods of extinction and evolution
Newly discovered 100-million-year-old lizard described in MCZ journal November 2, 2018A newly discovered lizard species is described in the MCZ journal Breviora and highlighed by PBS Nova. Hardly the size of a paperclip, and entomed in 100-million-year-old amber, it is one of the smallest and most complete Cretaceous lizards ever found. Read more about Newly discovered 100-million-year-old lizard described in MCZ journal
Scott Edwards and Colleagues Awarded NSF's Dimensions of Biodiversity Funding October 26, 2018Congratulations to Scott Edwards and colleagues awarded the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Dimensions of Biodiversity program fund for their project, "US-BIOTA-Sao Paulo: Traits as predictors of adaptive diversification along the Brazilian Dry Diagonal." The project is... Read more about Scott Edwards and Colleagues Awarded NSF's Dimensions of Biodiversity Funding
Animal: Exploration of the Zoological World now available October 1, 2018 Animal: Exploration of the Zoological World, a new book published by Phaidon, with an intro by our Director James Hanken, is now available for purchase. From the publisher: ... Read more about Animal: Exploration of the Zoological World now available
