New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

My talk on #Indian Biodiversity and Frogs at the Harvard Museum of Natural History is now available online at the museum’s website and YouTube channel. University of Delhi Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard Museum Harvard Radcliffe Institute . Link: youtu.be/GTUGAw79nv8

On this week’s MCZ series, we feature a land snail species from Singapore - Cyclophorus aquilus. Forest-dependent land snails like C. aquilus are presently found in forested areas including Central Catchment Nature Reserve. 🌳 Swipe to learn more 👆Museum of Comparative Zoology

I am thrilled to share my last contribution on squat lobster taxonomy!!! This was the result of an expedition funded by Museum of Comparative Zoology and a work in collaboration with David Combosch, @island_evo_lab and Gonzalo Giribet. Check of article in Marine Biodiversity 👇link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🧵

The next specimen featured on the MCZ series is Rhizoprionodon oligolinx, also known as the grey sharpnose shark. It is a surprise to know that there were/are sharks in Singapore’s waters. 😮🦈 Part of what SIGNIFY does includes scribing original descriptions! 🖊️ Museum of Comparative Zoology

Read about the importance of sunflower sea stars and learn about the MCZ's collection from #mczInvertZoology collection manager Adam Baldinger

On this week’s MCZ series, we feature another ant specimen - Tetramorium simillium!🐜 This particular specimen piqued lots of interest with its one-of-a-kind label “collected on pineapple fr. Singapore”. 😮 Swipe to learn more! 🍍Museum of Comparative Zoology

This tiny (4.5 mm long) bubble shell (Cylichna (Sao) pellyi) was collected 24 years ago in Madagascar and was just identified this month. It's an important specimen for our malacology collection as it is the only representative of this species that we have.

This week on the MCZ series, we feature Ophiogymna elegans, commonly known as the brittle star! ⭐ Do you know? Brittle stars are named as such due to their ability to break their arms off when escaping from predators! Museum of Comparative Zoology

Check out Sarah Losso latest work on the trilobites from the Walcott-Rust Quarry, this time it's all about the legs! Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology This also marks the inaugural paper for the ASD special issue on arthropod limb evolution w/Carsten Wolff 🤩 authors.elsevier.com/c/1jSnj5DlMxVM…

Guess I'm technically a "vertebrate paleontologist" now 😅 alongside Rudy Lerosey-Aubril we introduce the new taxon Nuucichthys rhynchocephalus, the first soft-bodied Cambrian vertebrate from Western USA and the latest species from the Marjum biota Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Research from MCZ Associate SD Biju, Postdoc Sonali Garg, former Curator of Herpetology James Hanken and colleagues, published in the MCZ journal Breviora, describes a unique frog breeding behavior bbc.com/news/articles/… Publication available at bit.ly/4d0CI6v

This week, we feature Todiramphus chloris humii, or the collared kingfisher! This specimen was collected in 1937, and “came aboard the S.S. Rhexenor at night”. It is likely that the bird flew onto the ship and was opportunistically collected by the people onboard!🫢Museum of Comparative Zoology

Watch this video featuring the discovery of a unique upside-down spawning behavior in the Charles Darwin's Frog from the Andaman Islands of India. ow.ly/l88l50SQg5u Then read the research published by Museum of Comparative Zoology: bit.ly/3WMGJFM

From Kaylin Chong, graduate student in #mczEntomology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, lead author of the study. Customised eyes: How spiders regulate their eye growth museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/press/press… via Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

For (delayed) #TardigradeTuesday we are chuffed to share a new OA study by graduate student Marc Mapalo Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Museum of Comparative Zoology redescribing the fossil tardigrade Beorn leggi, and introducing Aerobius dactylus gen et sp. nov. from Cretaceous amber! nature.com/articles/s4200…

Debika Bhunia, an Ernst Mayr Grant recipient from the U. of Kalyani, visited the Museum Koenig Bonn to review Indian Sericini (scarab beetle) specimens to understand their taxonomy and distribution. Applications for the fall 2024 round of grants are open bit.ly/2HUbQt8

Found and databased through the MCZ’s Eastern_Seaboard_Mollusks data entry efforts, collected in 1944 in Florida by the Burry-Foster Expedition. Contributed by: Jennifer Winifred Trimble, Gonzalo Giribet, Michelle Tang, and Murat Recevik ©President and Fellows of Harvard College

Gillet et al. propose the “Nested Regions” hypothesis, showing that cetaceans repatterned their spinal regionalization by adding regions in the tail to assist with axial-driven locomotion. Amandine Gillet Katrina Jones nature.com/articles/s4146…

Visit the new Harvard Museum exhibit Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination, to see MCZ specimens from our ichthyology, invertebrate zoology, malacology and vertebrate paleontology collections.