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The glass sea creatures, dating to the 1870s and ’80s, were made by German glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, who created Harvard’s famed Glass Flowers collection. The sea creatures were made earlier in the Blaschkas’ careers and, unlike the Glass Flowers, which were made solely for Harvard, the sea creatures were widely sold as biological models.

Undersea life, clear as glass

Exhibit at Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases restored Blaschka glass sea creatures

Campus|

DateJuly 3, 2014March 18, 2019

Gonzalo Giribet, professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and curator of invertebrates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, has collected mollusks and their shells around the world and is working to construct a mollusk family tree. Giribet, who curated a new mollusk exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, said mollusks are easier to study than soft-bodied invertebrates because even after a mollusk dies, it leaves a shell behind for examination.

Clams, snails, and squids, oh my!

HMNH exhibit presents a colorful depiction of the diversity of the mollusk branch

Health|

DateMarch 8, 2012June 3, 2019