The MCZ's Ornithology collection is featured in The Harvard Crimson's photo essay Bird Brilliance: Exploring Harvard’s Ornithology Collection. Read more about Bird Brilliance: Exploring Harvard’s Ornithology Collection

Learn about the MCZ's bird nest and egg specimens in Harvard Magazine's What birds’ nests tell us: Inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s revealing birds’ egg and nest collection.  Read more about What birds’ nests tell us

Professor Scott Edwards, MCZ Curator of Ornithology, and the Department Chair of Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, is featured in HMSC Connects! Scott is a longtime champion of promoting diversity in the sciences, and in this podcast he discusses how those issues have come into focus in recent years, and the ways in which we can strive to make Nature and Science accessible to everyone.

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The MCZ's papier-mâché octopus from the 1880's has been restored and is now on display in Harvard's Northwest Building. The project is featured in the Harvard Gazette, An... Read more about MCZ's papier-mâché octopus has a new home

From the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: 

Munidopsid squat lobsters (from the family Munidopsidae) are among the most abundant decapods found at abyssal depths of the ocean. They are the most diverse squat lobster group in the East Pacific region and make their homes in one of the harshest...

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From the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: Stem cells are a biological wonder. They can repair, restore, replace, and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans these cells are limited to regenerating only the cell type they are assigned to. So, hair stem cells will only make hair. Intestine stem cells will only make intestines....

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The rise of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) is one of the iconic evolutionary transitions preserved in the fossil record. These animals, which lived about 385 to 320 million years ago during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods of Earth’s history, set the stage for the evolution and diversification of all other terrestrial vertebrates as we know them today, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals like humans.

It was long thought that these early animals grew very slowly throughout their lifetime, gradually getting bigger and bigger, similar to a modern...

Read more about Cracking open a fossil bone reveals rapid juvenile growth in early tetrapods