They’d been in the collections of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) since the 1870s when they were first discovered. Nestled in among the largest collection of trilobites, the unique fossils rested in drawers until 145 years later when Sarah Losso, PhD candidate in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) at Harvard, began combing through the collection of trilobites as part of her dissertation.
“I started my PhD going through all of these thin sections of...
In a study published in Nature, researchers, led by postdoctoral researcher Karma Nanglu, describe a 480-million-year-old cephalod from Morocco that shows the earliest example of ocean bottom dwellers making their home in dead bodies.
Dead bodies in the ocean drift to the bottom where they become home to bottom dwellers, the practice dates back to 530 million years ago. During the Paleozoic era, however, it became much harder to track the interspecies interactions. Nanglu and co-authors,...
Palaeozoic fossils of whip scorpions are extremely rare, with only seven species fully described. In a new study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, PhD candidate Richard Knecht (Naomi Pierce...
Congratulations to PhD candidate Inbar Maayan (D Haig) awarded NSF Division of Biological Infrastructure Fellowship for her project, “The impact of changes in genome structure on diversification in adaptive radiation.”