The Graduate School of Life Sciences Poster and Images competition Image Competition: Second prize to Paola Cognigni for her image "A view into a fly's backside". Impact Poster competition: Second prize to Gerit Linneweber for his poster "Insects impact on us!" Departmental Seminar Day Poster Competition Winner: Jiggins...

The Critically Endangered Raso lark (Alauda razae) lives on a single desert island of 7 km2 in the Cape Verdes off West Africa. Happily, the birds have undergone a remarkable boom over the past decade, according to a paper published online this week in Animal Conservation.

Research published in the journal Nature reveals for the first time how a famous extinct animal, the early four-legged vertebrate (tetrapod) called Ichthyostega, moved on land.

Many congratulations to Claire Spottiswoode, who has been awarded one of this year's four L'Oreal "Women in Science" Fellowships for her work on the genetics of mimicry in Cuckoo eggs.