MCZ Faculty-Curator of Ornithology, Scott Edwards, took advantage of this unprecedented summer to partly fulfill his dream of biking across the country and to raise awareness for Black Lives Matter and Black Birders Week. You can follow his adventure on Twitter and read more about it in the...

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A new paper in Current Biology shows the head morphology of the species Leanchoilia illecebrosa - a member of Megacheira, an extinct group of arthropods. This is the fifth in a series of publications that represent an ongoing collaboration between...

Read more about MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod fossil

We are currently accepting applications for the Vertebrate Paleontology Technician and Preparator position. 

This role operates and manages the Paleontology Preparation Laboratory within the Museum of Comparative Zoology and cares for fossils in the vertebrate paleontology collection. 

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Congratulations to Scott Edwards, MCZ Faculty-Curator of Ornithology, who was elected to the American Philosophical Society!

Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. The APS is unusual among learned societies because its Membership is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines...

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MCZ collections have been closed for three months but MCZ curatorial staff have continued to work their usual schedules from home. With paper files in hand they have been busy imputing and updating information in our specimen database, MCZbase. 

Learn more about what we, and other Harvard museums, have been doing during this time in the...

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MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Zoology Mansi Srivastava is one of two Editors-in-Chief of EvoDevo, an Open Access journal focused on research that promotes understanding of the pattern and process of morphological evolution.  Read more about Mansi Srivastava appointed as an Editor-in-Chief of EvoDev

Phil Fahn-Lai, Stephanie Pierce Lab grad student and OEB Teaching Fellow, rose to the challenge when all Harvard courses went online earlier this spring. A significant component to OEB 126 Vertebrate Paleontology, is handling MCZ fossils during in-person labs. When Phil learned students would no longer be on campus for these labs, he spent his last few days on campus scanning as many fossil specimens as possible. He then designed an interactive website... Read more about Vertebrate Paleontology rallies to create virtual labs for OEB course