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.

In this year's GSLS Poster and Image competition , the Department of Zoology postgraduates made a very strong showing: In the Research Poster category: Best Overall - Jessica McLachlan Best 4th Year PhD/Postdoc - Hanns Hagen Goetzke Research Image Highly Commended - Wendy Gu