Museum of Zoology
Recent News
U-M Biological Station Announces Results of 2023 BioBlitz
Targeting aquatic life and shoreline species in and around Douglas Lake, researchers and private citizens logged a total of 509 species from Friday, July 21, to Sunday, July 23.
Congratulations to our EEB students!
2022-2023 Graduate Student Awards
Research Feature
A University of Michigan EEB led team documented 15 rare predator-prey interactions in the Amazon rainforest including images and video of a dinner plate-size tarantula dragging a young opossum.
Warning to arachnophobes: The video below is the stuff of nightmares!
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Events
Featured
Oct
05
EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Hubbell Seminar - From fossil to genome: Integrative phylogenetic approaches uncover the evolutionary history of predaceous ground and water beetles
Grey Gustafson, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University
3:00 PM
1010
Biological Sciences Building
Upcoming
Oct
08
ID Day
11:00 AM
Museum of Natural History
Oct
10
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - How mammals ran: Morphology and function of lumbar vertebrae in early placental mammals
Anne Kort, Michigan Fellow, UM Museum of Paleontology
12:00 PM
1010
Biological Sciences Building
Oct
10
EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar - Evidence for widespread genomic inversions without phenotypic breaks in passerine birds
Teresa Pegan, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Postdoctoral Fellow, Winger Lab
12:30 PM
1010
Biological Sciences Building