Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that...
The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge will be closed to the public from June 2nd 2013. Subject to planning permission, the museum will be...
A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in...
Footage shows how a little creature propels itself off water.
Dr Amanda Vincent – one of the world’s leading experts on seahorses and their relatives – is spending a year at Cambridge’s Department of Geography...
An exhibition of beautiful, detailed paintings depicting all the World’s carnivores by top wildlife artist Priscilla Barrett will be on display at...
Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an elephant fish embryo, which live in their egg and feed off of their yolk supply for 7 to 10 months before hatching out...
In this video, Matt Benton shows us nuclei moving inside a beetle egg as a beetle embryo forms.
The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out research that...
Set to the stunning backdrop of Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden, the Zoology Department is once again going on a BioBlitz.
