Kalina Davies is investigating how bats evolved echolocation, using high-pitched sound to sense the world around them.
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Elizabeth Castro Salas: Tequila bats and coronaviruses
Elizabeth Castro Salas is studying Mexican tequila bats to find out how they can pick up and transmit infectious diseases like coronaviruses.
Emma Teeling: Bats and why I love them
Leading bat geneticist Emma Teeling explains why bats are so brilliant and what we can learn from their genomes.
Go big or go home
From giant dinosaurs and blue whales to oversized capybaras, some animals are built on a bigger scale. But how have they evolved to be so huge?
Island life
From elephants to humans, we discover why island living turns some animals into giants and others into dwarves
Helen Pilcher: Genetically modified wolves, fainting goats and golden gnus, how humans are shaping species
Helen Pilcher explains how humans have shaped the evolutionary trajectories of the species living alongside us on the planet.
Alex Ball: CSI Banteng - using genetics in conservation
Alex Ball, from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland’s Wild Genes programme explains how genetics can be used to help conservation.
Meet your inner fish
Human and fish embryos share striking similarities thanks to our shared evolutionary origins - it’s time to meet Tiktaalik, the ancient ancestor of your inner fish.
Back to the womb - fish, fraud and dodgy embryology
German zoologist Ernst Haeckel had a flair for illustration, creating incredibly detailed and widely shared scientific images. But do his famous embryo drawings really show the true picture of early development?
Darwin's Finches
The iconic finches collected from the Galapagos Islands by Charles Darwin are widely thought to be the inspiration for his theory of evolution by natural selection. But while it’s a nice story, it’s not quite true…
The Mythical March of Progress
The March of Progress is probably one of the most widely recognised scientific images and an instant visual short-hand for evolutionary progress. But how accurate is it?
From Darwin to DNA - redrawing the tree of life
Flip open any biology textbook and you’ll see a typical ‘tree of life’ showing the relationships between species. But where did these iconic representations come from? And how do scientists decide what makes a species anyway?
Everything you ever wanted to know about the evolution of sex (But were too afraid to ask)
Not only do birds, bees and educated fleas do it - 99% of all multicellular creatures on earth reproduce sexually. But why?