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. 

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For the first time in 133 years a new species of boa has been discovered in the Dominican Republic, published in the MCZ journal Breviora, by Miguel A. Landestoy, R. Graham Reynolds and Robert W. Henderson. 

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For the first time in over a century, a new boa species has been discovered in the Dominican Republic. University of North Carolina Asheville Associate Professor of Biology Graham Reynolds has collaborated with naturalist Miguel Landesto...

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Tiago Simões, a researcher in the Stephanie Pierce lab and former Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, knew he found something special when he examined a fossil specimen collected decades ago. The fossil belongs to a previously unknown species of lizard-like reptile, representing the earliest evolving member of a lineage that today includes all lizards, snakes, and their closest relatives. The research was published in...

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The MCZ is looking for a Curatorial Assistant to join our Invertebrate Zoology department! This position will focus on Arachnida and Myriapoda specimens.... Read more about Open position in Invertebrate Zoology – Curatorial Assistant

Come work with our 7 million entomological specimens, including the world's largest and most historically important ant collection! The MCZ is accepting applications for a full-time Curatorial Assistant in our Entomology collection. Visit https://bit.ly/2VIPCDl for more information and to apply.

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For the latest episode of the HMSC Connects! podcast host Jennifer Berglund talks with Gonzalo Giribet, the new director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, and curator of invertebrate zoology. Giribet recounts his insatiable interest in scouring the beach for shells growing up south of...

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Listen to Twenty years of the MCZ with James Hanken, outgoing Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the latest podcast from the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. 

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