A man with a big idea
05 Oct 2024With up to one million species facing extinction, Professor William Sutherland is using what he knows to help stop biodiversity loss. Because nature can’t wait.
News from the Department of Zoology.
First map of every neuron in an adult fly brain complete
02 Oct 2024The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.
Why animals talk
28 Aug 2024Dr Arik Kershenbaum listens to wolves, gibbons and dolphins to reveal the messages they send one another. His work challenges our assumptions about what animals are capable of, and affirms what makes humans truly unique.
The mink must go: ending a catastrophic UK invasion
13 Aug 2024Many have said it's an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink - the lasting hangover of mink farming - unbelievably quickly.
Australia’s giant lizards help save sheep from being eaten alive
25 Jun 2024Heath goannas - a species of giant, scavenging lizard - act as natural clean-up crews by clearing maggot-ridden animal carcasses from the landscape.
Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts - and form new species in the process
30 May 2024Two decades of cuckoo research have helped scientists to explain how battles between species can cause new species to arise
Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water
17 May 20243D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around them
Pork labelling schemes ‘not helpful’ in making informed buying choices, say researchers
11 Apr 2024Farmers don’t have to choose between lowering environmental impact and improving welfare for their pigs, a new study has found: it is possible to do both. But this is not reflected in the current food labelling schemes relied on by consumers.
Fish bellies, fava beans and food security
05 Apr 2024Cambridge Zero and Cambridge Global Food Security gather academics and experts to share solutions for the planet’s looming food production problem.
Ancient DNA reveals reason for high MS and Alzheimer's rates in Europe
10 Jan 2024Researchers have created the world’s largest ancient human gene bank, and used it to map the historical spread of genes – and diseases – over time as populations migrated.
