Research by MCZ postdoctoral fellow Tiago R. Simões has provided an extensive database that is helping scientists better understand the evolution of reptiles. Along with MCZ Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology,...

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Congratulations to MCZ Faculty-Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, Mansi Srivastava, awarded a 2020 Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award for her project Comparing development and regeneration to uncover mechanisms for maintaining regenerative ability in adult animals.

"The Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award was created in...

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For the past five years, MCZ Faculty-Curator Javier Ortega-Hernández has been collaborating with colleagues in China to learn more about arthropod evolution by using micro-CT scanning to create 3D models of fossils and view details that would be impossible to see otherwise. Read more about the ongoing project in the...

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A new species of bat has been named in honor of Edward O. Wilson, Faculty Emeritus in the MCZ. Wilson’s Long-fingered Bat, Miniopterus wilsoni, is named in recognition of Prof. Wilson's support and facilitation of biodiversity research at Gorongosa National Park over the past decade. The new species is described in the journal Acta Chiropterologica.

HMSC Connects! Podcast is a weekly podcast that goes behind the scenes of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture to talk to the scholars, researchers, collection keepers, exhibit designers and other fascinating individuals who keep the museums humming along and create a compelling array of exhibits and programs.

Since the podcast launched in May 2020, two have featured the MCZ collections. Andrew...

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Photogrammetry is a common method of creating 3-D models of objects, but the qualities of glass make photogrammetry impossible with some of the Blaschka models of marine invertebrates. Peter Fried, professor of applied physics at NYU, along with colleagues from Cornell and the MCZ, combined photogrammetry with CT scanning to create 3-D models that anyone can view and inspect. The method is published in...

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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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