Nick Davies, Professor of Behavioural Ecology in the Department of Zoology, appeared on the BBC programme 'Springwatch', on Thursday 11 June 2015. He and Chris Packham discussed cuckoos in a report filmed at Wicken Fen. This is a link to the programme; the report is about 20 minutes in. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...

From Museum Collections Manager, Matt Lowe: Some of you may have noticed the absence of the whale shed from the New Museum’s Site car park, and the subsequent appearance of our favourite cetacean (skull) in its new home. The skull was craned into the new foyer very early on Saturday morning (6 June) with the help of our...

Professor Malcolm Burrows’ forthcoming paper (Journal of Experimental Biology) describes how moths use their legs to jump-start their flight. This New York Times article describes the research with the help of new film of moth take-off. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/science/legs-not-wings-give-moths-a-flying-start.html

Congratulations to Wendy Gu, a Ph.D student in her 4th year, who has won first place in the BSCB BSDB Student Poster Prize competition (British Societies for Cell and Developmental Biology). Her prize is attendance at the SBD 74th Annual Meeting, which takes place in July 2015 in Snowbird, Utah.