Museum of Natural History

The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology houses invertebrate, bird, mammal, fish, and reptile and amphibian collections. The museum now has the largest snake research collection in the world after 30,000 new snake specimens were donated.

Journalist Danny Fenster spent 176 days as a political prisoner in Myanmar. We talked to him about what happened and the fight to get him home to Michigan. And, we took a trip to Wasem Fruit Farm as apple season kicks into high gear. Plus—mastadons! We talk to a University of Michigan paleontologist about what we're still learning about these magnificent beasts.

The University of Michigan now owns what is considered to be the only lifelike reconstruction of an extinct human relative that roamed southern Africa 2…