News from the Department of Zoology.
What's killing our bees – and how they fight back
08 Apr 2026Professor Mark Brown has devoted decades to defending pollinators from disease, pesticides and parasites.
Flood tolerant wetland crops could also support nature recovery, finds new research
12 Mar 2026Research led by the University of Cambridge and the RSPB shows that farming wetland-adapted crops on wetter peat - known as paludiculture - can support richer and more diverse bird communities than drained grassland.
Eight Cambridge researchers awarded €17 million in ERC Consolidator Grants
09 Dec 2025Funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme will support promising mid-career scientists to pursue creative research ideas across a broad range of scientific fields.
Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years
02 Dec 2025Scientists have reconstructed ancient anacondas from 12.4-million-year-old fossils discovered in Venezuela to find these tropical snakes were a whopping 5.2 metres long.
How your dinner affects 30,875 species
30 Oct 2025Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of food production on the long-term survival of other species around the world.
Taking a closer look at life
25 Jun 2025A team at Cambridge is helping to drive biological discovery through innovation in microscope technologies
The man behind the mangroves
23 Jun 2025Dr Tom Worthington works on the restoration and conservation of coastal ecosystems. The data he provides sits at the heart of billion-pound initiatives to save our natural world.
Learning to thrive in diverse African habitats allowed early humans to spread across the world
18 Jun 2025Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats including African forests and deserts, which was key to the long-term success of our species’ dispersal.
Cambridge researchers awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council
17 Jun 2025Eleven senior researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council – the highest number of grants awarded to any institution in this latest funding round.
