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Global Michigan article about a Himalayan bird mystery features Janet Hinshaw

Hinshaw honored by Wilson Ornithological Society

Invasive species ID’d at regional UMMZ Fish Division workshop

Chakrabarty named TED Fellow

Deadly snakes or just pretending? The evolution of mimicry

Huang awarded UMMZ Tinkle Scholarship

Nearly $1.5 million in donations to UMMZ from Cohn bequest

Museums ID Day in the news

Knowles named Robert Payne Collegiate Professor

Beatriz Otero Jimenez's field work featured in Global Michigan

News from the Matuwa!

Life with Dead Birds blog is “for all your bird-nerdy questions”

Unique scientific illustration class explores UMMZ collections

Jeff Shi wins “I’m a Scientist USA” competition

Myers Endowed Award for Field Research established

Prosanta Chakrabarty's TEDx talk

Fish division hosts workshop on invasive fish species for Great Lakes Fishery Commission

UMMZ staff honored with well-deserved LSA Outstanding Team Award

Behind the Scenes Day 2015

Doug Nelson featured in Brazilian Society of Ichthyologists Bulletin

UMMZ helps host FEMMES Saturday Science Capstones

Local Middle School Visits Mammal Collections

Smith and Badgley receive SVP awards

Shi wins N. American Society for Bat Research’s Koopman Prize

Animal Diversity Web mobile app released

On U-M Gateway: U-M biology student and nature filmmaker wins $50K National Geographic Channel exploration contest

Two of six NSF awards to digitize biodiversity collections include U-M museums

Fink, leading authority on the biology and systematics of fishes, retires

Unique Pacific mollusc collection donated to UMMZ

EEB 433 students learn bird biology inside and out

Baiz awarded Genetics Training Program Fellowship

Check out Insect Week!

UMMZ Specimens Featured in "Wild India"

Title’s awards trifecta

Collecting biological specimens essential to science and conservation

Qixin He receives Donald W. Tinkle scholarship award

Rabosky wins IBS MacArthur & Wilson Awar

UMMZ Herpetological Collection Joins VertNet

UMMZ news from the World Congress of Malacology

Notes from the Director/Associate Chair of Collections

Namesake snakes for U-M Museum of Zoology researchers

Otero Jimenez named HHMI Gilliam Fellow

New digital collection: Museum of Zoology Herpetology Radiographs

20th annual ID Day delights community and scientists alike

New UMMZ digital collection unearths mysterious order of amphibians

Biology Letters cover story: a role of mimicry in brightly colored ground beetles?

Warm welcome to our newest EEB faculty

Genomic tools for species discovery inflate estimates of species numbers, U-Michigan biologists contend

Thompson receives service award from American Society of Mammalogists

Namesake snakes for U-M Museum of Zoology researchers

A new species of terrestrial-breeding frog (Amphibia, Craugastoridae, Pristimantis) from high elevations of the Pui Pui Protected Forest in central Peru

OConnor and Klimov: USDA Bee Mite ID released

Thomaz wins notable Museum of Zoology Tinkle Award

And the EEB Outstanding Paper Award goes to…Pascal Title!

Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference hosted by U-M museums

Hop, skip, run, leap: Unpredictability boosts survival for bipedal desert rodents

U-M partners in project to create digital encyclopedia of thousands of 3-D vertebrate specimens

On U-M Gateway: three species of tiny frogs discovered in Peruvian Andes

New speciation research in Andean cloud forest birds shines light on age-old questions

Scan All Snakes (yes, all of them)

Bee Collection Donation to the Insect Museum

Symposium: Diversification process in dynamic landscapes

UMMZ and MSU bee collaboration!

Prairie Pre-Restoration Sampling & Education

UMMZ rabbit specimens collected in the 1940's and 1950's help researchers understand the evolution of resistance to myxoma virus

Nocturnal flight-calling behaviour predicts vulnerability to artificial light in migratory birds

Stunning Insect Collection Donated to the UMMZ!

Ricardo Marino-Perez selected as the recipient of the 2019 Snodgrass Memorial Research Award

Out of museum drawers and on to the internet: NSF digitization grant awarded for 3D renderings of mammal collections

New publication explores how biodiversity can help scientists predict future pandemics

UMMZ Featured in LSA Magazine, Summer 2022

Welcome Taro Eldredge!

Non-native Fish caught at Annual Fish Slam

UMMZ Egg Imaging Project

Watch This: Biodiversity Buzz Video Clips

Visitors to UMMZ

Graduate students use bird specimens to track 130 years of environmental pollution

Brazilian Ph.D. student visits Fish Division

Monitor Lizard Morphometrics

Red Backs & Lead Backs Revisited

Sooglossid frog population comparisons

Comparing pitvipers from Venezuala and Trinidad

Systematics of the Polychrus marmoratus group

Gecko morphometrics

Increased Diversity in Australian Geckos

Dietary Analysis of Mudpuppies

Study of sphenomorphine skinks of Papua New Guinea

Taxonomic revision of the snake tribe Dipsadini

Freshwater Mussels of Texas

CMU Graduate Student Studying Freshwater Mussels

Malacologist Visiting Mollusk Collection and Library

Freshwater Mussels of Arkansas

Developing Florida Mussel Database

Making Science Visible-Art & Design Undergrad Class Visits Mollusk Collections

Freshwater Mussel ID Workshop

Scientific Coordinator of the Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles visits Mollusk Division

Researchers Examining Mollusks of Point Pelee National Park, Canada

Marsh Family visits Mollusks Division

Paleoanthropologist Examines UMMZ Howler Monkey Collection

UMMZ Alum Returns to Study Alaskan Mammals

Visiting Student Leverages 3D Technology in Morphological Study

Pre-Dental Students Examine Mammal Specimens

Determining the Functionality & Origin of Mandibular Features in Sloths

Researcher Studies Seasonal Morphological Variation in Mustelids

Texas Tech Student Examines Mammal Specimens

Michigan Undergraduate Studies Mammalian Skull Diversity

UROP Student Photographs Rodent Jaws

Postdoctoral Researcher Uses 3D Imaging of Ungulates

PhD Student from University of Illinois studying Neotropical Tridactylidae

Dr. David Nickle, retired Smithsionian entomologist

Chris Dick, associate curator and EEB professor visiting insect collection with students

Dragonflies are OK

Invasive Fish Species Workshop

Florida Gators Invade UMMZ

Postdoctoral Researcher

Undergraduate McNair Scholar

Graduate Student

Adaptive Radiation in Diverse Groups of Fishes.

EEB 440 (Biology of Fishes) Class Visits Varsity Drive

Investigator from Wayne State University

Walter Rainboth Visiting from University of Wisconsin

Research on Crow Species

Visiting Student Studying Bird Bill Morphology

Univ. of Florida Student Visits Bird Collection

Albion College students visit Bird Collection

Bill Morphology of Red Crossbills

Indian ornithologist visits Bird Division

Cuban Ornithologist Visits Bird Collection

High School Interns Measure Asian and South American Bird Specimens

Investigating Intergrade Flickers

Revisiting UMMZ Mollusk Collection to complete the Texas Freshwater Mussels Database

Minnesota DNR Malacologist visits Mollusk Division collection

Art student visits Mollusk Division

Dr. Hannah-Maria Jaques visits Mollusk Division

Visitor to the Bird Division

Visitor to the Insect Division

Dr. Almir Pepato visits the Insect Division

Recent Grant Recipients

Dan Rabosky, has been awarded a prestigious Packard Fellowship

Thomaz wins prestigious Rackham Predoc Fellowship

Student Involvement

Continuing a Legacy in the Mammal Division

Using UMMZ Specimens to Study Syrian Mammals

Reorganizing Woodpeckers

Databasing and photographing freshwater snail, Elimia, as part of the Great Lakes Invasives TCN project

Databasing and photographing freshwater clam, Pisidium, as part of the Great Lakes Invasives TCN project

Databasing land snail, Succinea, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing land snail, Glyphyalinia, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing land snail, Zonitoides, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing and photographing freshwater clam, Pisidium, as part of the Great Lakes Invasives TCN project

Databasing and photographing freshwater clam, Pisidium, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing and photographing freshwater snail, Viviparus, as part of the Great Lakes Invasive TCN project

Graduate Student Curatorial Assistant

Reorganizing the Bird Skeletons

Databasing and reorganizing the freshwater snail collections as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Maria is a UROP student working on morphometrics of Wall Lizards from the Greek Islands

Ross is UROP student working on morphometrics of Wall Lizards from the Greek Islands

Databasing and photographing mollusk specimens as part of the Great Lakes Invasive TCN

Databasing freshwater snail, Planorbidae, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing freshwater snail, Physidae, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing freshwater snail, Physidae, as part of the InvertEBase TCN project

Databasing planorbid snails

Databasing and photographing freshwater mollusks

Photographing freshwater snail, Elimia, as part of the Great Lakes Invasive TCN

Databasing freshwater snail, Valvata

Databasing and photographing freshwater clam, Pisidium, as part of the Great Lakes Invasive spp. TCN project

Exploring Mammalian Diversity to Conserve Mammalian Diversity

Helping a Flightless Bird Fly

Future vet tech gets hands on experience

Learning the Nitty Gritty of Museum Curation

Databasing fingernail clam, Sphaeriidae

A High School Volunteer Databasing Freshwater Snail Lymnaeidae

Learning Mammals from the Inside Out

Artistry in specimen preparation

EEB Museums Newsletters

400 Global Experts in Herpetology Visit EEB Museums

A Trip of Extremes: Ph.D. Candidates Juan Gabriel Albornoz-Garzón and Benjamin Nicholas Share Their Adventures to Peru

Curators, Research Scientists and Staff

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Undergraduate Students

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Division of Birds

Bird Collection

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Accessions and Loan Policies

Genetic Materials Grant Policy

Field Notes and Records

History of Ornithology at UMMZ

Miscellaneous Publications

Occasional Papers

Published Papers List

Resources on Michigan Birds

Peregrine Falcons at the University of Michigan

Archived peregrine data

Distributional Checklist

Division of Fishes

Fish Collection

Miscellaneous Publications

Occasional Papers

Division of Insects

Insect Collection

Specimen Holdings

Acquisition Policy

Insect Division History

Miscellaneous Publications

Occasional Papers

Barry Oconnor's Publications

Lacey Knowles' Publications

Opportunities - Insect Division

Insect Resources

Alumni of the Insect Division

Division of Mammals

Collection Overview

Miscellaneous Publications

Occasional Papers

Mammal Division Policies

Animal Diversity Web

Support the Mammal Collection

Division of Mollusks

Mollusk Collection

Conus Biodiversity Website

Miscellaneous Publications

Occasional Papers

Malacological Review

Division of Reptiles & Amphibians

Reptile & Amphibian Collection

About the Collection

Former Curators

Preservation Techniques

Reptile & Amphibian History

Miscellaneous Publications

Occasional Papers

Michigan Reptiles & Amphibians

Support the Herpetology Division

UMMZ-Sponsored Graduate Student Awards

Student Research Gallery

Historical letters in U-M zoology museum archive highlight links between specimen collection, conservation

Student & Volunteer Opportunities

CT Scanning Core

Digital Data Usage -- Terms & Conditions

Museum of Zoology

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