Museum of Zoology
Recent News
Stormy yet beautiful photo captures win for a rough 2020
The winning photo is emblematic of a rough and stormy year. Congratulations to EEB graduate student, Teresa Pegan, who captured the stunningly beautiful, “Waves from an Alberta clipper at sunset.”
Museum scientists: Prepare for next pandemic now by preserving animal specimens in natural history collections
It’s been more than a year since the first cases were identified in China, yet the exact origins of the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery.
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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