Edward O. Wilson, Ed as we knew him, a leading light of our community, died yesterday afternoon. He was an important advocate of the MCZ, a kind presence, and inspiration to us all. He will be greatly missed.
A new tanager species, that was documented in part from an MCZ Putnam Expedition Grant in 2012, has been described and published in the journal Ornithology. The South American songbird is so distinctive that it warrants its own genus, Heliothraupis. The work is featured in Audubon. Read more about A new species, and genus, of tanager is described
MCZ Faculty-Curator Javier Ortega-Hernández and graduate student Marc Mapalo, along with colleagues, describe Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus, a new fossil tardigrade from Miocene Dominican amber. Read about the discovery in the Harvard Gazette and...
Specimens and data collected by Stephan Cover, safe keeper of our ant collection for many decades before retiring earlier this year, was instrumental in research headed by Christian Rabeling at Arizona State University. Rabeling began the project as a postdoc at the MCZ working with Edward O. Wilson and Naomi Pierce.
The MCZ is looking for a Curatorial Associate of Herpetology! Come work with our 345,000+ specimens, including 2,674 primary types and 19,608 paratypes.
