We are sorry to share the passing of George Putnam, Jr., a longtime friend and supporter of the MCZ. He was a member of the MCZ Faculty Governing Board and founding donor of the Putnam Expeditionary Grants program. His kindness and counsel will be missed.

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The Srivastava Lab, led by postdoc Andrew Gehrke, sequenced the genome of Hofstenia miamia in order to understand how the non-coding portion of the genome responds to whole-body regeneration.  The study is published in... Read more about Study uncovers genes that control process of whole-body regeneration

Research led by MCZ Faculty Curator Stephanie Pierce and graduate student Zachary Morris examined how the crocodylian skull changed over time by comparing embryonic development with later growth in all species of living crocodiles. Their work demonstrates that the diversity of skull... Read more about Study examines how evolution modified the crocodylian skull

New 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

A 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

Congratulations 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

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