Museum of Zoology
Recent News
Student Spotlight: Annie Cress
Annie Cress, a senior honors student at the University of Michigan, is making a name for herself in the world of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Michigan News: Scientists CT-scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of open Vertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaborative project among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens.
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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