Congratulations to MCZ/Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Thalles Pereira, a BioOne Ambassador Award recipient for 'Partnerships for the Goals: Citizens and Scientists Find and Describe a New Species​'

#TrilobiteTuesday Coosella kieri from the mid-Cambrian Weeks Fm. of Utah, USA. #ECBAW

It was my great pleasure to contribute to two of the book chapters (links below for the chapters). What an amazing continuation of a tradition! This book series is a great starting point for any people who are interested in the research in fish biology Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Visit Harvard Museum to see MCZ ant and termite specimens. This new exhibit features some of the largest ants, some of the smallest ants, and ants that use their heads as doors to their nests! #mczEntomology

Will be delivering a public lecture at
Harvard Museum of Natural History on 25 April 2024, along with opening of a frog photo exhibit. University of Delhi Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Museum of Comparative Zoology

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Ancient ‘Dune’-like Sandworm Existed Far Longer Than Thought - read about a newly described species that was found in our collections by MCZ/Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology invertebrate paleontologists Karma Nanglu and Javier Ortega Hernández nytimes.com/2024/03/26/sci…

For a perfect #WormWednesday , Javier Ortega Hernández and I can introduce our newest species Selkirkia tsering! This worm is from the ~475 million year old Fezouata fauna, and has important implications for how we understand early animal diversification! tinyurl.com/3p3m5yh2

Watch the video!

Here postdoc Robert Brocklehurst gives a seminar on How Do Turtles Breathe? for the Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology course What Makes a Turtle? which utilizes MCZ herpetology specimens for its weekly labs. The course is taught by Faculty-Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Stephanie Pierce MCZ Paleontology

Students of OEB 56: The History and Evolution of Life on Earth, taught by MCZ Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Prof. Javier Ortega-Hernández and Prof. Nadja Drabon, are spending spring break in southern Utah, visiting Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossil localities.

Clam you believe it?! The common name for Plicatula species is kitten’s paws! 😻This is Plicatula marginata, a tiny saltwater clam from the Tertiary of North Carolina. #Kittens #Clams #MCZInvertPaleo #FossilFriday

How could evolution have shaped so many winged birds like the emu, ostrich, and kiwi with no ability to fly? This question fascinated Scott Edwards, Agassiz professor of evolutionary biology Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and ornithology curator at @mczharvard.

#Harvard

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It's spring break and MCZ director, curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor Gonzalo Giribet is in Panama with OEB51: Biology and Evolution of Invertebrate Animals, soaking up sun and looking for all the amazing marine invertebrates.

Learn about citizen science and the recently-described snakeworm gnat species in Alaska from Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Thalles P. Lavinscky Pereira. #MCZentomology

With the completion of a years-long project called openVertebrate, the insides of more than 13,000 museum specimens are seeing the light of day.

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We wanted to start the day with the delightful oVert wrap celebration video (volume up) 🎉🎉🎉 because it was a huge collaborative work to unlock museum collections for the world to explore:
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#oVertTCN #EarWorm #FlyingTurtle

It's a wrap! 🎉🎉🎉 With the completion of #oVertTCN , the doors of natural history museum collections have been digitally unlocked allowing scientists, educators, artists & the public to interact with specimens in ways never before possible.
Story:
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This podcast features MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Thalles Pereira - listen to learn more about snakeworm gnats! #MCZentomology

Ernst Mayr Grant recipient Manuel Barria visited the MCZ from the University of Panama to review type material and identify Phyllophaga (May beetles) specimens in our collection from Panama. He also identified other species of Phyllophaga from Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

Do #fish swimming in a #school actually save energy? A🧵on this as our paper in eLife - the journal elifesciences.org/articles/90352 by Yangfan Zhang addresses this question. This is a challenging issue to study: energy use by a school should be compared to solitary locomotion