A page for past and present students to keep informed about what is currently happening in Zoology at Otago.
https://www.otago.ac.nz/zoology
Zoology Department, University of Otago
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A review of fossil goose (Aves: Anserinae) records from the Miocene St Bathans deposits, New Zealand, with the description of a new species
doi.org/10.1080/0891...
Huge congratulations to Cassie Mealey who submitted her MSc thesis entitled ‘Scaling Up Detection: eDNA for Elusive Lizards’ yesterday. Ka rawe Cassie!! :) 🎉
Combined effects of microplastics and nitrogen on bivalve-mediated biogeochemical cycling - aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🐾🔬 Hands-on University of Otago Zoology Project 2026 — what a week!
So great meeting everyone 🙌 From Orokonui Ecosanctuary visits 🌿 to dissection day, pest control chats, Tūhura Otago Museum, and getting up close with our skull collection 💀
Such an awesome experience!
Editorial: Biodiversity of Antarctic and Subantarctic ecosystems
doi.org/10.3389/fevo...
Reconstructing ecological niche and feeding ecology of pre-contact New Zealand avifauna from Harwood, Otago Peninsula
doi.org/10.20417/nzj...
Recent Emergence and Distributional Expansion of the Parasitic Copepod Lernaeenicus cf. ramosus in Japanese Waters Revealed by Web Image Surveys by @ryotahasegawa922.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Zoology Department, University of Otago
@zoologyotago.bsky.social will have some new captive reared juvenile Southern Bell Frogs on display soon. Today they had a physical, and this one was especially grumpy about it. 🧪🐸
Zoology Department, University of Otago
New Zealand bug of the year: moth named Avatar after mining threat crowned winner www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Zoology Department, University of Otago
Neurod2 knockdown in Xenopus laevis tadpole brain retains cells in a proliferating, progenitor-like state doi.org/10.17912/mic... - I invite you to read the Beck lab's first ever micropublication! @zoologyotago.bsky.social and @otagobiochemist.bsky.social 🐸🧪 @micropub7n.bsky.social thank you!
Zoology Department, University of Otago
Zoology Department, University of Otago
Zoology Department, University of Otago
Zoology Department, University of Otago
Jon Waters
Caroline Beck
Caroline Beck
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The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) adopted a work program (2019-2030) that included, under its firs...
