Ancient skeletal hand could reveal evolutionary secrets
A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could show how early humans moved and began to walk upright, according to new research.
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LJMU powers Chester Zoo to Africa conservation award
Conservation AI platform enabled tracking and monitoring of elusive pangolins in Uganda
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Rethinking the orangutan
The critically endangered orangutan—one of human’s closet living relatives—has become a symbol of wild nature’s vulnerability in the face of human actions and an icon of rainforest conservation.
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Macaque communication signals studied
Experts in primate behaviour develop online resource to improve welfare
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Gouldian finches show us the effects of social conformity
LJMU scientists have published research that provides a unique opportunity to investigate how personality can be affected by social context.
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How scavengers avoid infection and what we can learn from them - The Conversation
Dr Darren Sexton of LJMU's School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences studies antibacterial products from the natural world of plants and animals
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Drones to the rescue: wildlife park footage will help save endangered animals
Scientists at LJMU are capturing the thermal profiles of animals at a local wildlife park in order to help researchers around the world classify and monitor endangered species in the wild.
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Nvidia boosts LJMU AI computing power
The Faculty of Engineering and Technology acquires three powerful deep learning systems for research into wildlife conservation and public safety
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Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology
LJMU, WWF and HUTAN came together to examine better ways of detecting the great apes in the Bornean forest canopy, by using drones fitted with thermal-imaging cameras.
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Radical conservation offers hope for Orangutan
A new study involving LJMU’s world-leading animal conservationists says radical action is needed now to avert the loss of thousands more orangutans.