The Bony Hall was initially designed for the Museum and Institute of Comparative Anatomy of Moscow University which shared with Zoological Museum the new Zoological Building erected in 1902. It was affiliated by the latter in 1931, when Institute of Comparative Anatomy was moved from University to the Academy of Sciences by its leader, A.N. Severtsoff. Now it is called the Evolutionary Morphology Hall of the Zoological Museum.

The exhibition shown here illustrates the basic principles of classical evolutionary morphology: correspondence between ontogenesis and phylogenesis, laws of transformations of structures and functions, idea of evolutionary progress. You can got familiar with examples of evolution of particular organs and body parts of vertebrates, with their ontogeneses, adaptations etc.

Vertebrate skeletons constitute the largest portion of exhibits of this hall which explaines its old name. Much smaller part consists of alcoholic preparations accompanied by drawings and other graphical schemes.