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The University Museum of Zoology contains far more than a record of the past. Ambitious redevelopment plans will enable enhanced use of its unique...

Fossils of a creature that lived on the ocean floor 505 million years ago have been identified by scientists as those of a previously-unknown marine...

New research shows for the first time the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone in the earliest four-legged animals (tetrapods)...

Tonight Cambridge vertebrate palaeontologist Professor Jenny Clack is the subject of BBC Four’s Beautiful Minds series. The programme looks at her...

Research by a Cambridge archaeologist shows that back pain caused untold misery long before we started staring into screens and slumping on sofas.

Cambridge anthropologists are increasingly looking at human evolution not just as a path through the remote past, but also as a way to explore...