Zoology

Duygu Sevilgen has built a coral lab in the basement of an old Zoology building. Here, 10 experimental tanks host multicoloured miniature forests...

Dr Arik Kershenbaum listens to wolves, gibbons and dolphins to reveal the messages they send one another. His work challenges our assumptions about...

Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific things happened – right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found.

A new study reveals that when burying beetle larvae are denied parental support, they evolve bigger jaws to compensate.

A unique three-year project to bridge the divide between science and philosophy – which embedded early-career philosophers into some of Cambridge’s...

A new study of TV-watching great tits reveals how they learn through observation. Social interactions within a predator species can have “...

Fish embryo study indicates that the last common ancestor of vertebrates was a complex animal complete with gills – overturning prior scientific...

Over a third of new conservation science documents published annually are in non-English languages, despite assumption of English as scientific ‘...