Zoology

Cuttlefish can remember what, where, and when specific things happened – right up to their last few days of life, researchers have found.

A new study reveals that when burying beetle larvae are denied parental support, they evolve bigger jaws to compensate.

Despite rapidly ageing, dominant animals live longer because their underlings are driven out of the group – becoming easy targets for predators. The...

A unique three-year project to bridge the divide between science and philosophy – which embedded early-career philosophers into some of Cambridge’s...

A new study of TV-watching great tits reveals how they learn through observation. Social interactions within a predator species can have “evolutionary...

Latest findings support the theory that teeth in the animal kingdom evolved from the jagged scales of ancient fish, the remnants of which can be seen...

Fish embryo study indicates that the last common ancestor of vertebrates was a complex animal complete with gills – overturning prior scientific...