News

We start off 2022 with a new Open Access publication in Nature Communications describing the exceptionally preserved nervous system of the soft-bodied euarthropod Mollisonia symmetrica from the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale, featuring some stunning material...

The Museum of Comparative Zoology Annual Report for 2020-2021 is now freely available online HERE, and we are honoured that one of the new species described by the lab is featured in the cover! We first came across Thelxiope holmani during the field...

The last few weeks have been full of exciting discoveries on exceptionally preserved invertebrate fossils in amber inclusions. First, graduate student Marc A. Mapalo published a study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B describing the third-ever named...

Check out the latest installment of PBS Eons addressing the evolution of the earliest echinoderms, more specifically how starfish got their arms! We are particularly excited as the cover artwork, as well as a good chunk of the video, features our recent...

The past month has seen the publication of two exciting studies focusing on the preservation and evolutionary significance of fossilized central nervous systems. First, a collaboration with Dr. Russell Bicknell (University of New England) and colleagues...

We are delighted to wecome Dr. Karma Nanglu as the newest member of the Laboratory for Invertebrate Paleobiology and Evolution. Karma recently completed a prestigious Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, and completed his PhD...

It's finally official! We have received confirmation that the proposal " Ecological turnover at the dawn of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event - quantifying the Cambro-Ordovician transition through the lens of exceptional preservation" will be...

The Lab for Invertebrate Paleobiology and Evolution at OEB/MCZ and Harvard stands firmly with the Statement Against Asian Hatred published by the Paleontological Society, the flagship scientific society for our discipline in the United States. We stand...

A big thank you to Jessica Cundiff for her hard work, amazing support, and incomparable dedication for 20 years serving as Curatorial Associate and Curation Manager of the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Jessica...

Wrapping up 2020, the Invertebrate Paleobiology and Evolution lab had a strong presence at the Virtual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association organized by our colleagues at the University of Oxford! Contributions included Sarah Losso's first talk at...