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Dr. Martin Adamson, Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia retires today, June 30th, 2020. Martin was initially...

Ep 13: Diane Srivastava on Ecological Networks in Nature and Science Diane Srivastava, an expert in ecology, joins Kalina Christoff to discuss food...

Ian E. Efford, retired professor in the Department of Zoology at UBC, died peacefully on June 7th, 2020. Ian joined Zoology and the Institute of...

K.E.Marshall, K.Gotthard, C.M.Williams. 2020. Evolutionary impacts of winter climate change on insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science Summary...

The Amazonian Arapaima, the largest obligate air-breathing freshwater fish, gets most of its oxygen from the air even when its is only 2-3 weeks old...

The Department of Zoology at UBC stands in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and we absolutely condemn anti-Black and other forms of racism in Canada...

Christian Damsgaard, Monica McGrath, Chris M.Wood, Jeffrey G.Richards, Colin J.Brauner. 2020. Ion-regulation, acid/base-balance, kidney function, and...

New synthesis paper in Current Biology. This collaborative review focuses on animal pursuit and evasion: behaviours that provide natural experiments...

B. L. S. Furman, D. C. H. Metzger, I. Darolti, A. E. Wright, B. A. Sandkam, P. Almeida, J. J. Shu, J. E. Mank. 2020. Sex chromosome evolution: So many...

More types of mosquito discovered in Yukon — that's 33 and counting. UBC researcher Dan Peach has confirmed at least 4 more species in the territory...