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Invertebrate Paleontology Curator Carl Simpson wins $1 million in funding
Simpson and his colleague Lizzy Trower receive W.M. Keck Foundation grant to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and to extend Earth’s temperature record by 2 billion years!

Robert Colwell (museum curator adjoint of entomology and zoology) and co-researchers collect and evaluate a large amount of data on hummingbirds’ physical features for��a research paper published in��The American Naturalist.��

Horsepower: Professor unveils a new history of horses
William Taylor examines how horses shaped human history in his new book. For more information and to pre-order a copy, visit: ��(University of California Press, Summer 2024).

This award was granted to Will and a team of over 80 people, who worked collaboratively on the history of horses through Indigenous societies in North America. This award was based on Will and his team’s cover story in Science during March 2023, titled “.”

Climate change is making it tough on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators; now the state may try to protect them.

Triceratops returns to campus, bigger and better than ever!
CU Museum��unveils full-scale cast and exhibit in the lobby of the��Sustainable, Energy and Environment Community��(SEEC) building on East Campus.��

Oh, poop! What looks like a rock is filled with clues
Dinosaur dung scientist and Bromery Award winner Karen Chin authors new children’s book.

Paleontology Curator Karen Chin awarded GSA Bromery Award��for making significant contributions to geological sciences, specifically multidisciplinary paleobiology, as well as opening the geosciences to underrepresented communities through her extensive outreach.

Led by CU Museum's Talia Karim and Carl Simpson, this newly-funded project will improve discovery and use of millions of fossil specimen records for paleontology research at CU and other universities.

Amy Dunbar-Wallis, plant ecologist at CU and curator behind the С����Ƶ Apple Tree Project exhibit at the CU Museum, is finding variants of fruit that reflect the cultural and ecological history of their place in the world. Read more in Nature.

Dr. Jaelyn Eberle and research team discover tiny fossil mammal in northern Alaska
The tiny ‘ice mouse’ thrived in what may have been among the coldest conditions on Earth about 73 million years ago. Read more at CU С����Ƶ Today.

Some hummingbirds are flower robbers. Here’s how to spot them.
CU Museum’s Robert K. Colwell (with 5 coauthors) featured in the News from Science: Weekly Headlines.

Permanent director named to lead the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Following a nationwide search, the Research & Innovation Office has announced the appointment of Dr. Nancy J. Stevens as Director of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, effective Sept. 1, 2023.

Museum class inspires students to preserve and celebrate LGBTQ+ activism in new collection and library exhibition
The history of CU С����Ƶ student activism for LGBTQ+ rights is now available at the University Libraries thanks to Emily Howard, a Libraries and Museum intern who processed and organized the����when they were an undergraduate history student.

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CO Dept of Natural Resources DNR, Launch study on Native Pollinating Insects
CU Museum of Natural History is collaborating to protect Colorado’s pollinators!

Chili peppers more deeply rooted in Colorado than previously thought
How forgotten Colorado fossils may rewrite part of plant evolutionary history.

Dr. William T. Taylor featured in The Conversation.