Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard just as study shows a world hostile to the fate of amphibians.

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

Harvard biologist Hopi Hoekstra documents whether NCAA team mascots are really what they say they are. Here’s a bracket-buster: Many of them aren’t.

Javier Luque’s first thought while looking at the 100-million-year-old piece of amber wasn’t whether the crustacean trapped inside could help fill a crucial gap in crab evolution. He just kind of wondered how the heck it got stuck in the now-fossilized tree resin? “In a way, it’s like finding a fish in amber,” said Luque, […]

Harvard study challenges lateral-to-sagittal shift in mammal spine evolution.

Harvard researchers develop in vitro method for probing what colors an insect sees.

Harvard has digitized 19th-century glass models of 15 marine invertebrates made by Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka. The 3D models are the result of between 250 to 700 images that had to be taken per glass piece.

Harvard and Chinese scientists study Cambrian fossils using micro-CT and 3D models.

New paper argues the Spinosaurus was aquatic, and powered by predatory tail.