Andrew Balmer , who will be starting his MPhil with Professor Paul Brakefield in April, has won a bursary to help fund his studies. Andrew won a £1000 bursary from postgraduatesearch.com with his particularly amusing and original video of stop-motion animation. The judges felt that his entry must have taken a long time (...

Plans to transform Cambridge University’s Museum of Zoology have received another major boost following the award of £200,000 from the Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The Museum of Zoology is currently closed as part of a £4m redevelopment project to...

The Museum of Zoology featured on a recent edition of Look East , celebrating its huge achievement moving the collections with the help of its fantastic volunteers. Now it is launching an appeal to raise £150,000 to redisplay the gallery and “Raise the Whale!”.

Insect Ecology Group member Sarah Luke and her collaborator Rory Dow have discovered a species of dragonfly that is new to science during work at the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. It is the first time this species has ever been found, and the first species within its...