Yesterday, 27 March 2018, the University Museum of Zoology opened the lower gallery doors to visitors for the first time since 5 pm on 3rd June 2013. The whole Museum will open with a flourish in late June but until then visitors can enjoy the brilliant new galleries that showcase the amazing diversity of animal life, from...

Last week Barbara, Baroness Young of Old Scone, visited the department to give the third annual Equalities and Wellbeing lecture. Before the lecture, she met members of the Equalities and Wellbeing Committee and then went on to lunch with a selection of our Postdoc community. Lunch was a lively affair that discussed career...

Cambridge ZooCast: What's it like to be a Graduate student in the Department of Zoology in Cambridge? A group of postgraduates is producing some short videos about being a student in the Zoology Department. In each five-minute episode, two postgraduate students have a casual conversation on topics ranging from their...

In August 2017, the Bolivian government passed a contentious law that paved the way for construction of a new 190-mile road cutting through one of the country’s most iconic and biodiverse protected rainforests. A recently released report in Current Biology, written by a group of scientists from Bolivia, Finland, Spain and...