Department of Zoology

Road traffic kills almost a third of hedgehogs in some British populations each year, a new study shows, and could be putting smaller populations at...

The University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford will lead a major new partnership to digitise over 1.1 million natural history specimens...

Bumblebees collect up to seven times the amount of toxic heavy metals as honeybees even when foraging in the same environment, new research from the...

The winners of this year's Pilkington Prizes have been presented with their awards at a special event hosted by St Catharine's College.

The way that Earth’s first animals reproduced held back life’s diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of...

A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in forest loss - offering real...

A new study suggests that malaria influenced where early humans lived in sub-Saharan Africa between around 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, fragmenting...