Tag: Museum of Comparative Zoology
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Who will fight for the frogs?
Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard just as study shows a world hostile to the fate of amphibians.
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Racing to catalog, study deep-sea biodiversity
Researchers find five new species of hard-to-access creatures amid shortage of knowledge, concerns growing commercial interest may cause extinctions.
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An exhibit with legs
Harvard’s Pacific octopus specimen has lived on campus since about 1883. Now, fully restored, the model hangs in the Northwest Labs building.
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You call that a wildcat?
Hopi Hoekstra documents whether NCAA team mascots are really what they say they are. Here’s a bracket-buster: Many of them aren’t.
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A trailblazing biologist — and beloved mentor and friend
Friends and colleagues remember E.O. Wilson as shy but down to earth, passionate about his work but generous with his time.
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Bad for 100-million-year-old crab, but good for scientists
Javier Luque’s first thought while looking at the 100-million-year-old piece of amber wasn’t whether the crustacean trapped inside could help fill a crucial gap in crab evolution. He just kind…
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Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
A new Harvard study challenges the accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
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Unlocking the colors of insect vision
Harvard researchers develop in vitro method for probing what colors an insect sees.
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A model of how museums can share their collections more widely
Harvard has digitized 19th-century glass models of 15 marine invertebrates made by Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka. The 3D models are the result of between 250 to 700 images that had to be taken per glass piece.
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Viewing flattened fossils in a new light
Harvard and Chinese scientists study Cambrian fossils using micro-CT and 3D models.
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Though museums are closed, the work continues
Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.
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Water beast
New paper argues the Spinosaurus was aquatic, and powered by predatory tail.
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James McCarthy, environmentalist, dead at 75
James J. McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and director emeritus of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, died on Dec. 11 after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 75.
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A second look at evolution
Researchers find clues to evolution in the intricate mammalian vertebral column.
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Debunking old hypotheses
Biology Professor Cassandra G. Extavour debunks old hypotheses about form and function on insect eggs using new big-data tool
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Researcher connects the dots in fin-to-limb evolution
With an innovative technique called anatomical network analysis, clear patterns emerge that help solve the puzzle of how fins became limbs 420 million years ago.
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Divinity School professor retains her grade-school wonder
Harvard Divinity School Professor Anne Monius’ determination to get to Harvard started on a grammar school field trip. Today she inspires students to love learning as much as she does.
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The deepest colors you’ll ever see
“I wanted to make the viewers feel they were transported to the bottom of the ocean,” says Lily Simonson about her exhibit “Painting the Deep,” on view at Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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A passion for nature, in beetles
A collection of 150,000 beetle specimens, donated by businessman and longtime Harvard benefactor David Rockefeller, arrives at the Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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Retracing Romer’s footsteps
A Harvard team finds a rare fossil in Nova Scotia while retracing the footsteps of Alfred Romer, the paleontologist who identified a gap in the record from the period when animals first crawled out of the ocean and began to walk on four legs.
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Digitization uncovers pre-WWII fossil loan
Digitization of Harvard’s fossil insect collection produced a surprising twist: The return to Germany of hundreds of Eocene insects frozen in amber.
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What’s in a (scientific) name
The Harvard Museum of Natural History is taking on names — both common and scientific — together with companion institutions in a series of new installations that introduce the public to the color and complexity of appellations.
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Deep dive
The Harvard Museum of Natural History opens a new marine life gallery, which uses the seas off New England as a lens for learning about marine life around the world.
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Alone with evolution
Efforts by Harvard faculty to understand island evolution form the centerpiece of a new exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Undersea life, clear as glass
The Harvard Museum of Natural History has opened a permanent exhibition of the glass sea creatures created by famed artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka more than a century ago.
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Three days, three wild finds
Tim Laman, an associate of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and an award-winning wildlife photographer, was part of a two-man team that helicoptered into a remote Australian rainforest earlier this year, coming out with three new species: two lizards and a frog.
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Learning through doing
As part of Professor Gonzalo Giribet’s Biology of Invertebrates class, students make closely observed, highly detailed sketches of animals they study in the lab.
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Melding the Web and the tactile
An organismic and evolutionary biology course this semester has formed a virtual classroom with other universities to examine the holdings of museum collections and the vast amount of data they contain and integrate them into the classroom.