Tag: Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology

  • Nation & World

    Glimpses of paradise

    Photographer and Harvard affiliate Tim Laman worked with Edwin Scholes of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology to document all 39 species of birds of paradise.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    How fish swim

    Scientists have long believed that sunfish, perch, trout, and other such bony fish propel themselves forward with the movement of their tails, while their dorsal and anal fins — the fins on their tops and bottoms — work primarily as stabilizers.

    2 minutes