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Seahorses and the “onion world”

Dr Amanda Vincent - one of the world's leading experts on seahorses and their relatives - is spending a year at Cambridge's Department of Geography on a sabbatical from the University of British Columbia. She is introducing some new ideas into conservation discussion groups at Cambridge.

Under the Microscope #15 – Elephant fish embryo

Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an elephant fish embryo, which live in their egg and feed off of their yolk supply for 7 to 10 months before hatching out as a completely self-sufficient juvenile.

Under the Microscope #8 – Beetle embryo

In this video, Matt Benton shows us nuclei moving inside a beetle egg as a beetle embryo forms.

Memory like a fish

The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out research that reveals how fish remember other sea creatures and even people.