Tag: Invertebrates

  • Nation & World

    Racing to catalog, study deep-sea biodiversity

    Researchers find five new species of hard-to-access creatures amid shortage of knowledge, concerns growing commercial interest may cause extinctions.

    6 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Learning through doing

    As part of Professor Gonzalo Giribet’s Biology of Invertebrates class, students make closely observed, highly detailed sketches of animals they study in the lab.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    For love of the creepy, crawly

    Biologists from around the world are on campus this week for an international conference on invertebrate morphology sponsored by the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Deep thinking

    The Museum of Comparative Zoology’s invertebrate collection continues to expand, as biology professor Gonzalo Giribet brings home samples from the deep ocean in the North Atlantic.

    4 minutes