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Museum of Zoology
Recent News
A'liya Spinner: A Bee Story
What started as casual doodles soon became an eye-opening journey into the world of bees.
Michigan News: Freshwater mussels: Investigating the remarkable reproductive cycle of Michigan’s threatened mollusks
The study’s lead author, Trevor Hewitt, conducted the fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation in the U-M Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The senior author, Diarmaid Ó Foighil, is a professor in the department and was Hewitt’s adviser.
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!
Please Note: The Museum of Zoology is a research facility. It is not usually open to the public. Please refer to the Museum of Natural History website if you wish to visit.
Events
Nov
05
EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Toxic Relationships: The Genomic and Phenotypic Outcomes of Molecular Warfare between Predators and Prey// Applying Wafer-Scale Evolutionary Simulations to Investigate Hypermutator Dynamics in Large Asexual Populations
Matthew Holding, Postdoctoral Fellow, Life Sciences Institute and EEB // Matthew Andres Moreno, Postdoctoral Fellow, EEB
12:00 PM
1010
Biological Sciences Building
Nov
07
EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Untangling the History of Neotropical Biodiversity: The Big Picture
Lúcia G. Lohmann, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PM
1060
Biological Sciences Building
Nov
14
EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Carina Hoorn, University of Amsterdam
3:00 PM
1010
Biological Sciences Building