Browsing: Zoology

A vertebrate with one of the longest necks When paleontologists uncovered the fossils of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis in the Middle Triassic…

Ok, enough preamble. The rest of this article is devoted to articles (grouped together by subject) that I consider among…

Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the…

As well exemplified by a significant fraction of anole research, islands can act as natural laboratories of evolution. With limited…

Co-author Irina Rotenko Recently, we captured an interesting moment when a large wild boar tried to attack an adult wolf…

Deep-sea sharks include some of the longest-lived vertebrates known. The record holder is the Greenland shark, with a recently estimated…

 Jambo Jambo! My name is Anne Ju, and I am the new research assistant based out of Serena camp! I…

It’s quite possible to see 100 species of birds in a day in any month of the year here in…

In this edition of Who’s who in the Zoo, meet Michelle Yuen, a Zooniverse backend developer. Who: Michelle Yuen, Backend…

Pollinator Ambassadors, a European charity co-founded by Zoology PhD student Nynke Blömer (Agroecology Group), has recently won grants for two…

(alternative title: Penguin Power!*) “Bathysphere is a voluntary deep-sea network of Norway-based deep-sea scientists and professionals who want to increase…

Komodo Dragon on the island of RincaSeptember 2016The expedition cruise on which Clementine Churchill was a guest of Walter Edward…

 A couple of photo-stills from my two AI-generated video clips of the familiar cropped version of the notorious Ameranthropoides loysi…

Schradin, C., Pillay, N. and Rimbach, R. (2026). Adaptation to harshness is fundamentally different from the adaptive stress response: Results…

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Image: WoRMS Editorial BoardGonionemus vertens Jellyfish are known to be inveterate drifters. They love nothing more than to hang out…

The sponges are structurally primitive animals, very ancient as a group and only distantly related to the animals of other…

If, like me, you live in the UK then you will have seen this spider. I am pretty confident that…

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This blog originally appeared as a guest post for The Conservation Project. Kids who care about wildlife and wild places tend to…

After a short hiatus, EcoEvo will be back up and running for the next year. Firstly, a massive thank you…

  Good morning!  Our main news today is that we are mounting a challenge of DEFRA’s regulations that relate to burning…

Including multiple universes, which might explain where certain cryptids come from – and return to. now read on…. [Disclaimer: The content…

These dogs LOVE pulling sleds. They bark and howl with as the equipment gets set up. One morning in winter…

A data scientist thinks he’s solved the mystery of Bigfoot ― not by searching for the creature out in the…

There is something genuinely strange about the way bonobos use sex. Not strange in the tabloid sense, though that framing…

I should change the name of this blog to be ‘Yearly Jack-O-Lantern Design Blog.’Yep. Still doing this. Here’s this year’s…

Next month I’m headed on an expedition to THE ARCTIC!!!!!! When I told one of my best friends where my…

Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science by Jeff Meldrum (2007), Forge Trade, 320 pp, paperback and Kindle. Dr Jeff Meldrum…

For decades, scientists have wrestled with a simple but profound puzzle: how did life’s genetic code first connect with proteins?…

Once again it’s that time of year, by which I mean… spawnwatch season, of course. Caption: peak spawning activity, occurring…

Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the…

Color in life of Anolis laevis. Dewlap of adult male (A), lateral head of adult male (B), lateral body of…

In Naliboki Forest in May-June 2025 within an area of only about 140 km², we recorded three distinct wolf families…

Many animals avoid contact with people. In protected areas of the African savanna, mammals flee more intensely upon hearing human…

My name is Colin Hadley, the new RA for Talek camp. My research background is largely within the scope of…

My friend Jonathan Vargas and I recently had our fourth encounter with the Colima Pygmy-Owl just above the small Michoacán…

In this edition of Who’s who in the Zoo, meet Oluwatoyosi Oyegoke, a Zooniverse backend developer. Who: Oluwatoyosi Oyegoke, Backend…

On 20th November, the Cambridge University Entomological Society ran a symposium, titled ’The Good, the Bad, and the Monstrous: Insects…

As part of the Lower Heterobranchia and Pyramidellidae project funded by Artsdatabanken, an international taxonomic workshop was held at the…

Reg LanwornBy contrast with Lord Moyne’s expedition cruise of 1934-35 on board his large motor vessel, Rosaura, in which live…

 What happens when you ask AI to generate an image of a tall bipedal tailless monkey confronting a gigantic octopus…

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Journal of Zoology ‘Paper of the Year’ award as Saima…

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Demons get such a bad rap these days. And… all other days, I suppose. But look at this cutie! Surely…

Thinking about how animals mate, one might at first think about the way that mammals do it. But what do…

If you follow any wildlife or nature accounts on social media, then you may have noticed an influx of posts…

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Let’s talk about green parenting! 🌱   If you have kids, convenience rules … WE GET IT! But if you’re looking…

By Catarina Barbosa Sometimes you get to travel for your PhD and last week was one of those times for…

Dear Friends, I have been doing blogs on Blogger/Blogspot for so long that it seems really strange not to be doing…

Dear Friends, I have been doing blogs on Blogger/Blogspot for so long that it seems really strange not to be doing…

After living in Occupied Minnesota and witnessing the many constitutional violations perpetrated by ICE, I have dragged Disapproving Rabbits Merch…

Discover MagazineBeasts in the Mist By Marguerite Holloway, September, 1999 Click here for the online article The first 4 paragraphs…

Aleksey Maro spent part of last August sleeping under trees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, holding a plastic bag on…

2025’s Pumpkin designs are here!(Click to See Full Resolution)Happy Halloween Everyone! As always, I want to see your carvings if…

I have just returned from a month’s gallivanting around mainland China. It’s taken me 20 years to get there but…

The yeti, as every schoolboy knows, was introduced to the outside world in 1921 when Charles Howard-Bury,…

In the remote depths of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, scientists have found something astonishing: the world’s largest known fish…

I’m talking here about the domestic form of Columba livia, the so-called Rock pigeon or Rock dove. And, while I’ve…

Last week I gave you the second of a series of bird pelvises to try your hand at identifying: This…

Male Anolis proboscis. Photo by Sam Schenker. Ecuador is one of the most biodiversity-rich and unique locations in the world…

Co-author Irina Rotenko Eight years ago, we began following an adult female lynx in the central-southern part of Naliboki Forest,…

Those of us living with cats share our homes with an ancestral predator, one adapted for hunting and the frequent,…

 Jambo! My name is Gaurav Singh-Varma and I am the new research assistant for the Mara Hyena Project based at…

I tested the new SwarovskiOptik ST Balance 14-35×50, a spotting scope using an integrated gyroscope that measure movement over a…

We’re happy to introduce an updated Projects page on Zooniverse, designed to make it easier, faster and more enjoyable to…

A recent paper led by Dr Arik Kershenbaum, a College Associate Professor here in Zoology, describes how both wildlife and…

In November 2025, I got the chance to work closely together with Jon Kongsrud and Arne Hassel at the Invertebrate…

AJP saw this minivet while having a 6-hour walk in the New Territories of Hong Kong last month ‘from Tai…

 An AI-generated image of a blue-feathered harpy & a blue-denim biker dancing their passionate pas de deux d’amour (created by…