Ichthyology

For every two living vertebrates on Earth, one is a fish – 95% of which are ray-finned fishes such as salmon, tuna, goldfish, and trout. Ray-finned fishes comprise roughly 35,000 species and thrive in environments ranging from deep-sea trenches to alpine...

One of Kaylin's projects involves finding ticks attached to animals in MCZ collections and she was recently directed to an eel specimen in our ichthyology collection that was collected over 150 years ago. Read about why this is a notable find in...

George Lauder (MCZ Curator of Ichthyology and Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor) and Jessica Whited (Harvard Stem Cell Institute assistant professor) were awarded a Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research grant this year for...

Research from postdoc Júlia Chaumel and MCZ Faculty-Curator George Lauder finds t he long structures seen in manta rays and their relatives function as an early warning system, rather than a defensive weapon. New York Times: Scientists Finally Make Heads...

George Lauder, MCZ Curator of Ichthyology, along with scientists from Yale University and the University of Florida, hosted three students studying sharks for eight weeks this summer through the Research Experience for Undergraduates program Accessible...

Harvard University researchers, including MCZ Faculty-Curator of Ichthyology George Lauder and graduate student David Matthews, in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University, have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human...

MCZ Faculty-Curators George Lauder (Ichthyology) and Stephanie Pierce (Vertebrate Paleontology) were part of a recent project to determine the aquatic functionality of a dinosaur tail recently discovered and believed to belong to a Spinosaurus. The...

Multiple MCZ specimens highlight the Ernst Mayr Library exhibit "Hearing" currently on display in the lobby of the Northwest Building at Harvard.

The MCZ participates in an exhibit on brains and their development currently on display in Northwest Building at Harvard through March 2015. (February 2014)

The newly renovated Fishes Gallery opened at the HMNH. Read more about the MCZ specimen on display in the exhibit here.