In April 2026, a group of 28 Year 12 students from schools and colleges across the UK attended a residential programme run jointly between the Museum of Zoology, Clare College and Cambridge University Botanic Garden to create a temporary exhibition exploring connections in nature. Living Links was the result. The title and all the text you can see on this blog post was written by … Continue reading Living Links
Annabel Hunt, Department of Earth Sciences, writes: I study dinosaur skull anatomy for my PhD research at the University of Cambridge. I am a member of the Field Palaeobiology Research Group and I am supervised by Professor Daniel Field and co-supervised by Professor Steve Brusatte. Prior to starting my PhD here in Cambridge, I studied a four-year Integrated Master’s degree in Earth Sciences at the … Continue reading Imaging Dinosaurs
To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month the Museum is sharing the stories of 27 inspirational women, alongside the animals they work with the most. Dr Roz Wade Museum of Zoology “I wasn’t one of those children obsessed with dinosaurs. It was later, at university, that I discovered a love of fossils. I went on to study the Middle Devonian osteolepidid fishes of … Continue reading 390 million year old fish
To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month the Museum is sharing the stories of 27 inspirational women, alongside the animals they work with the most. Dr. Emily Mitchell Department of Zoology “My research focuses on some of the first animals that ever existed. These first animals are found during the Ediacaran time period, around 580 million years ago. I was totally unaware about … Continue reading Some of the first animals that ever existed
