Professor G. H. Parker S.B. '87, professor of zoology, will deliver the first of his course of eight Lowell lectures on "The Human Sense Organs and Their Evolution," in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Both of these reptiles have tiny black specks called integumentary sense organs (ISOs) on their ...

Biophysicists in Germany are leading an effort to develop and apply models of the so-called lateral-line system found in fish and some amphibians. This sensory organ enables an animal, even in murky ...

The world’s largest animals have been hiding something. The bodies of the giant rorqual whales—including the blue, fin and humpback—have been regularly displayed in museums, filmed by documentary ...

A chicken-size dinosaur that lived in what is now Germany about 150 million years ago might have used sensory scales on its tail as it foraged for fish at night. These sensory organs, remarkably ...

Sublittoral Macoma balthica (L.) (14 mm size class) from the Southern coast of Finland (6 ‰ S) has smaller inhalant siphon (0.8 mg as dry weight) than intertidal M. balthica in England (4 mg, ...