News

After a semester settling in, we venture into teaching at Harvard OEB for the first time with the new course OEB 213 Evolutionary Convergence, Mass Extinctions and the Shape of Life. We will explore how our understanding of evolution has changed over the...

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Stephen Pates (Alexander Agassiz Postdoctoral Fellow) and Marc Mapalo (OEB graduate student) as the newest members of the Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab at OEB and MCZ! Steve is a world expert on the paleobiology and...

Rudy and Javier from the Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab at Harvard, joined by John Paterson (University of New England, Australia) and Bob Gaines (Pomona College, USA), took off to Northern British Columbia in search for exceptionally preserved early...

We are chuffed to announce that The William F. Milton Fund will support our proposal for field-based research on a new early Cambrian fossil site with Burgess Shale-type preservation in northern British Columbia! The Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab at OEB...

All members of the Invertebrate Paleobiology Lab converged in Riverside, California, for the 11th North American Paleontological Convention organized by Mary Droser and Nigel Hughes from UC Riverside! Our contributions covered the full scope of the lab...

Javier was recently interviewed by Adam Vassallo for an ambitious project entitled Prof Talks, that aims to feature 100 professors in 100 consecutive days. The conversation is available at the Prof Talks website, which also includes other colleagues from...

After much anticipation, we are super excited to launch the Laboratory for Invertebrate Paleobiology at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard!

The National Science Foundation just announced that the Collaborative Research Grant entitled " Convergent evolution and diversification of the crab body plan over 200 million years " is officially funded! This research will use an interdisciplinary...

Jo Wolfe has published an impressive study six years in the making that clarifies the phylogenetic relationships of decapod crustaceans, which include familiar (and delicious) representatives such as lobsters, shrimps and crabs. The results are available...

The Laboratory for Invertebrate Paleobiology, the Vertebrate Paleontology lab headed by Stephanie Pierce, and the Paleontology staff at the Museum of Comparative Zoology had the opportunity to host this year's MCZ Open House. The event featured an...