Elizabeth 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

A 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

Congratulations 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, a new book published by Phaidon, with an intro by our Director James Hanken, is now available for purchase.  

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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... Read more about Javier Ortega-Hernández Granted National Researcher Level I

MCZ postdoc Katrina Jones, MCZ Faculty-Curator Stephanie Pierce and collaborators investigated fossils with intact backbones from museums around the world to study the origins of the regionilized spine, once thought to be unique to mammals.  The reseach is published in ... Read more about How the mammalian backbone evolved – one region at a time

Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator Mansi Srivastava, recipient of the National Institutes of Health, Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators for her proposal,...

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