A paper published by MCZ graduate student Dave Blackburn made it among the top 10 science stories of 2008 featured by ScienceNOW, an online publication maintained by AAAS and Science magazine.  Science, 12/24/2008

Launch of the Encyclopedia of Life was one of Nature magazine’s 10 “biggest science stories of the year.”  Nature, 12/18/2008

Gonzalo Giribet's paper on metazoan phylogenomics, published in the journal Nature, was included in Discover magazine’s "top 100 Science Stories of 2008."  Discover, 12/4/2008

Migrating species are represented by MCZ specimens from several departments in a special exhibit at the Cabot Science Library "Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Roaming Caribou Do It: Migration in the Animal Kingdom" through January 2009.  Harvard College Library, 10/16/2008