Congratulations to Professor Andrew Balmford on the award of the Pilkington Teaching Prize for Teaching in 2017. Andrew has been a member of the Department since 1998 and has been an inspiring lecturer in both second and third year courses in Ecology and Conservation. He has been one of the key leaders of the second year...

Dr James Cuthbert SMITH, FRS, better known to his colleagues as Jim Smith, has been knighted in the 2017 New Year's Honours, for services to Medical Research and Science Education. Jim was a member of the Department of Zoology from 2001-2009 while based at the Gurdon Institute, before moving to the NIMR. Smith completed...

Members of the Department were saddened to hear of the death of Robert Hinde, who passed away peacefully on 23 December in the Arthur Rank Hospice at the age of 93. Robert was Royal Society Research Professor, based at the sub-department of animal behaviour, Madingley, from 1963 to 1989 and in a long and extraordinarily...

Scottish fossils tell story of first life on land Fossils of what may be the earliest four-legged backboned animals to walk on land have been discovered in Scotland. The lizard-like creatures lived about 355 million years ago, when the ancestors of modern reptiles, birds and mammals emerged from swamps. The discovery plugs...