Tag: Farish A. Jenkins

  • Campus & Community

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of biology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, dies at 72.

    5–8 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals

    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…

    1–2 minutes