Through careful study of exceptional specimens, graduate student Sarah Losso and faculty-curator Javier Ortega-Hernández show that some trilobites mated very much like extant horseshoe crabs thanks to their highly modified clasper-like limbs.
Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator of Ornithology, Scott V. Edwards, elected as a member of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, Sweden. The award is in honor of Professor Edwards scientific achievements and collaboration with University of Lund researchers.
Ortega-Hernández Lab members, and colleague, describe the first ever opabiniid, a crown jewel of the Cambrian explosion from the Wheeler Formation, Utah.
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
