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Zoology
The Department of Zoology is the largest of the Museum's four curatorial departments. The Department is organized into six Divisions: Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds, Fishes, Insects (with arachnids and myriapods), Invertebrates, and Mammals. Each Division has its own collection management staff, maintaining world-class collections that together total more than 19.5 million zoological specimens from around the world. In addition to their research programs, the Department's curators actively build and curate collections, train graduate, undergraduate, and high school students, develop exhibits and other public programs, and serve the diverse needs of the public and scientific communities.
Our Collections
The zoological collections are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Holdings include millions of specimens in dry storage (such as bones, feathers, shells, pinned insects), fluid-preserved specimens for anatomical research, frozen tissues for DNA studies, as well as numerous other special...
