Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology

03/17/2019

12/07/2018

Scientists have discovered a two-foot-long salamander species in Florida and Alabama that has the spots of a leopard and the body of an eel.

02/12/2018

While habitat loss is the greatest threat to biodiversity, the spread of alien species ranks as the second ...

11/18/2017

10/20/2017

Every fall, the International School-Chennai sends its entire high school student body on planes, trains and buses to “ Discove...

10/17/2017

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10/17/2017

Ernst Mayr, director of the MCZ from 1961 to 1970. A German-born American biologist known for his work in avian taxonomy, population genetics, and evolution. Considered one of the world’s leading evolutionary biologists, he was sometimes referred to as the “Darwin of the 20th century.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-Mayr

10/17/2017

Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Online resources, library services, and history.

06/24/2016

Thomas Barbour, director of the museum from 1927 until 1946.
Photo by BSNH - P. Creed, ed. The Boston Society of Natural History, 1830-1930. Boston: 1930. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26972, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8045041

06/24/2016

A collection of bird specimens at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Photo by Peter J. Park - Losos JB, Arnold SJ, Bejerano G, Brodie ED III, Hibbett D, et al. (2013) Evolutionary Biology for the 21st Century. PLoS Biol 11(1): e1001466. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001466, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23745509Ph

06/24/2016

Louis Agassiz, founding director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology