Tag: Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.

  • Campus & Community

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72

    Professor Jenkins completed groundbreaking work on gait, discovered a missing link in the evolution from fish to tetrapod, and chronicled an evolutionary step that helped to explain the origin of mammals.

    4–7 minutes
  • Health

    Boning up on frogs’ defenses

    Harvard biologists have determined that some African frogs carry concealed weapons: when threatened, these species puncture their own skin with sharp bones in their toes, using the bones as claws capable of wounding predators. The unusual defense mechanism is described by Harvard’s David C. Blackburn, James Hanken, and Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., in a forthcoming…

    2–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Finding a fossilized needle in an Arctic haystack

    The first season searching Arctic Canada for a fossil that would illuminate how our ancestors first crawled onto land proved Harvard Professor Farish Jenkins’ explorer’s maxim: Never go any place for the first time. A crew of six trudged through a barren landscape during the summer of 1999, finding the wrong sort of rocks scattered…

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Missing link crawls out of muck

    Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years ago. The newly found species, Tiktaalik roseae, has a skull, a neck, ribs, and parts of the limbs that are similar to four-legged animals known…

    1–2 minutes