Museum of Zoology
Recent News
ID Day 2023: Mobilising Collections to Showcase Biodiversity
ID Day was co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in partnership with the University of Michigan Natural History Museum.
Making Hiss-tory
Museum of Zoology’s 70,000 snake specimens form world’s largest research collection.
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
Dec
12
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: A.J Wing, EEB Ph.D. Student
Tracing Viral Community Dynamics and Implications for the Fate of Great Lakes cHABs
9:00 AM
4th Floor, West Conference Room
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Upcoming
Dec
15
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Sasha Bishop, EEB Ph.D. Student
Floral Evolution Beyond Phenology: Adaptive Dynamics in Plant-Pollinator Interactions Under Global Change
1:00 PM
Earl Lewis Room, Third Floor
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Mar
13
EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Bridget Shayka, Ph.D. Student
9:00 AM
Apr
11
EEB student evaluation seminar: Juan Gabriel Albornoz Garzón, EEB Ph.D Student
10:00 AM