Browsing: Zoology

This summer I started experimenting with using watercolors in the hope to start doing more drawing while out hiking and…

I flew past Mount Everest in 2016. Her perfectly shaped snow-capped summit jutting out of the fluffy white clouds on…

Readers will no doubt be familiar with the name of Ivan T. Sanderson who, along with Bernard…

Flightless birds show a deterministic reduction in keel size and sternum curvature as body mass increases. When birds give up…

Clearly, much remains to be learnt about the anatomy of dinosaur brains and what that anatomy does, or does not,…

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Happy ending: they both lived to see another day thanks to the screen between them! Thanks to Miriam Lipsky for…

Co-authors: Louise Giovannelli and Irina Rotenko Usually, from May until the end of September, wolves engage in territorial marking only…

I used to think it was merely a post-COVID19 hiccough, but the extensive delays in receiving reviews for submitted manuscripts…

Our Happy Zebra clan’s den is located very far off-road. When we first arrived at this location, there was a…

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge (please only name one species)?…

Happy 2026 from the Zooniverse team! As we look back on 2025, there’s a lot worth celebrating in the Zooniverse…

Research published today in the journal Science Advances shows that part of the answer lies in a subtle but consequential shift…

There are periods when you wait quietly for good news to knock. Then there are those rare, wonderful times when…

In the days when colour printing was extremely expensive, the Avicultural Society had special appeals for funds to support the…

 A typically-patterned male northern bushbuck in Senegal (© Lucy Keith-Diagne/Wikipedia – CC BY 4.0 licence) Bushbucks are the smallest members…

Vasconcelos, B.D., Camurugi, F., Mudrek, J.R., Brandão, R.A. and Santana, D.J. (2025). Rivers and spatial distance are drivers of genetic…

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Aspidistras are famous for their ability to withstand and even flourish under the kind of neglect that would usually end…

The process of formation of gametes is called “gametogenesis”. The gametes are derived from primordial germ cells/ primitive sex cells.…

Right, well I hope you all enjoyed the previous post about the formidable Assassin Bugs of the Hemipteran family, Reduviidae,…

https://youtu.be/MUf1fm3vCcU Watch the video about hippos and find at least 5 physical adaptations they have to help them survive in…

Today, we built a Bug House! This is a fun activity to do with kids of all ages that requires…

By Francesco Martini We are living in a biodiversity crisis, with many species shrinking in numbers and at risk of…

Meet “Brunswick” And 8 Other Bone Chilling Great White Sharks Who Have Visited Our Jersey Shore943thepoint.comCats are predators and natural hunters, but…

Woot Woot the lads are back with another cornucopia of Fortean frolics:- Gef the talking mongoose- Lake monsters in the…

When I knew I was moving back to Minnesota, I checked an apartment complex that was on my old birding…

He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson? Andrew started his TikTok account…

Picture this: a 43-year-old bonobo watches as a researcher tips an empty pitcher over two empty cups, miming the gesture…

 I was invited by the fine folks in Digital Marketing at DreamWorks Animation to create a drawing of my choice…

The Buddhists say grief is the price we pay for love. On Friday night the wounds I had just managed…

Who knows what mysterious creatures might walk out of the jungles of southeast Asia? Rumours abound of…

What’s the bare minimum needed for life? Scientists may have just found the answer in a tiny archaeon named Candidatus…

For previous TetZoo articles on birthdays and other landmarks, see…Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part I), January 2007Happy first birthday…

Last week I gave you this bony structure to identify: I didn’t think this one would prove too difficult, since…

Figure 1: A) Trunk-dwelling Cyrtodactylus consobrinus © L. Grismer. Its subdigital scales (the scales below the digits, where toepads might…

Co-authors: Louise Giovannelli and Irina Rotenko From mid-August to the end of October, we closely monitored the wolf families that…

Procreating with a relative is taboo in most human societies for many reasons, but they all stem from avoiding one…

Hello again from Serena camp! As you may have seen from our last two posts on North and Happy Zebra clan,…

Red-backed Flameback – Tissamaharama area, Mar 23, 2025 White-naped Woodpecker – Tissamaharama, Mar 20, 2025 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker – Yala NP,…

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Research published in Nature Communications on Thursday 15 January 2026, co-authored by Dr Joseph Millard of our Agroecology Research Group, provides new…

Do you study (marine) biology at the University of Bergen? Are you interested in a 1-month funded internship in Brazil,…

Drawing of Tuataras by Mary Edith Durham (1863-1944) for Hans Gadow’s volume Amphibia and Reptilesin the Cambridge Natural History series of…

 Yours truly in front of a life-sized model of a giant prehistoric scorpion, on exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum…

Wale, C.H., McConnell, S., van Leeuwen, S., Cowan, M.A., Spencer, P.B.S., How, R.A. and Schmitt, L.H. (2025). Disruption and irruption…

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Pac-Man was always such a harmless soul, lost in the labyrinth of his own mind, chased by ghostly memories of…

• Definition: The process of maturation and differentiation of PGC to oogonia, primary oocytes, secondary oocytes and to mature ova…

I have been, very kindly, nominated to take part in the Sunshine Blogger Award by Kannan Raja, the author of…

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Some creatures make a living by pretending to be something they’re not. (Like Halloween, every day!) In one high-flying example, zone-tailed…

The TCD Botany-Zoology Postgraduate Symposium made its annual return this month on the 7th and 8th of March for its…

Malay tapirs are glorious. These adorable animals spend their time innocently wandering around the rainforests of Southeast Asia, blissfully grazing on…

 The Gonzo Daily: Sunday Okay, boys and girls, this is all going to get a bit complicated. As you may…

Incidentally, as I was doing all this deep diving on the red-bellied woodpecker tonight, I noted that All About Birds…

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 2nd, 2023 Return of the Dodo? Scientists launch project to bring back the extinct…

In 1952, a Japanese ecologist named Kinji Imanishi wrote something that would take 72 years to reach most of the…

It’s that time of year again! Here’s this year’s contact sheet of goofy jack-o-lantern pumpkin designs:(click to enlarge)It seems like…

My amazing mother who is now 80, came to celebrate my 50th birthday. I should already be dead. I am…

When Roger Met Patty by William Munns (2014), Createspace Independent Publishing, Platform, 510 pp, paperback and Kindle. In October 1967…

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…