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The Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates is also housed in the Johnson Center and holds 1,230,000 specimens of fish, 44,300 amphibians and reptiles, 45,000 birds, 3,200 eggs, and 15,000 mammals, some now extinct. Students and scientists use the collections in their studies. [32]
A newfound fossil of a jawless fish is the oldest known vertebrate cranium preserved in 3D. The 455 million-year-old find could illuminate how vertebrate heads evolved.
Kelly Zamudio is the Doherty Chair in Molecular Biology in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Austin.She was formerly the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of Herpetology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.
Vertebrate zoology is the biological discipline that consists of the study of Vertebrate animals, i.e., animals with a backbone, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Many natural history museums have departments named Vertebrate Zoology .
Cornell’s vertebrate museum’s fishes collection is particularly strong with great diversity in North American fishes, and minnows in particular. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1970s the fish collection was greatly expanded thanks to collections made by renowned Cornell ichthyologist Edward Raney and his students. [33]
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Ithaca; Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center, Voorheesville; Garvies Point Museum and Preserve, Glen Cove; Herkimer Diamond Mines Museum, Herkimer; Hicksville Gregory Museum, Hicksville; Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Cornwall-on-Hudson; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
An array of zoological specimens at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo. A zoological specimen is an animal or part of an animal preserved for scientific use. Various uses are: to verify the identity of a , to allow study, increase public knowledge of zoology. Zoological specimens are extremely diverse.
The deep sea bathypelagic bony-eared assfish [138] has the smallest ratio of all known vertebrates. [139] Elephantnose fish: At the other extreme, the elephantnose fish, an African freshwater fish, has an exceptionally large brain-to-body weight ratio. These fish have the largest brain-to-body oxygen consumption ratio of all known vertebrates ...