For those traveling to the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, you can catch up with Grass Fellows and their recent work. Below is a working list of sessions featuring Grass Fellows and activities supported by The Grass Foundation. To request an addition to this list please email info@grassfoundation.org. Additionally, The [...]

The Grass Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2026 Grass Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. For this application year, the Foundation is piloting a new application process with a priority deadline and a final deadline. Applicants who apply by the priority deadline of October 15, 2025, have the opportunity […]

Birds and humans share an ability that’s not too common among our tetrapod vertebrate cousins–walking on two feet. While some animals can manage on their hindlimbs for a limited time (think prairie dogs, gorillas, and running frilled lizards), true bipedalism is only found among humans, birds, and a few other animals like kangaroos. It’s a […]

With its suction-cup-like mouth, rings of sharp teeth, and toothed tongue, lampreys attach themselves to fish and feast on their blood and other bodily fluids, sometimes killing them in the process. It’s a strategy that has served them well, as they have remained relatively unchanged for over 300 million years. Described as one of the […]

Welcome to this year’s cohort of Grass Fellows! These eight early-career scientists will soon be in the Grass Lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to spend the summer conducting research on topics ranging from pain sensation in sharks to ocean acidification and behavior in sea slugs. Zeeshan Banday – University of […]

If there was an official fan club for tardigrades, also known as water bears, its president would be Ana Lyons, Ph.D. She first learned about these charismatic microscopic animals on a trip to the library as a teenager, and she’s been a lifelong enthusiast of these creatures that are found in nearly every ecosystem imaginable. […]

There are over 7,000 described species of frogs, and they live in a wide variety of habitats. Some spend nearly their entire lives in the trees, and among those tree frogs, a few have evolved specialized features for gliding or parachuting between branches. For scientists like 2024 Grass Fellow Andrea “Dre” Gaede, gliding tree frogs […]

We may call them “crabs,” but horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than to the crustaceans they share their coastal homes with. The four species in existence today can be found along the east coasts of North America and South Asia, descendants of creatures found in the fossil record as far […]