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![Fallow deer stag © Bob Brewer/Unsplash.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fallow-deer-bob-brewer-14A9X2feLJ8-unsplash.webp)
New research supports conservation of fallow deer across Europe
New research has combined zooarchaeology and ancient and modern biomolecular datasets to reveal a new understanding of the history and projections of fallow deer.
![P1038353](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/P1038353.webp)
Hungry like a wolf: new insights from old bones housed in the BGS museum collections
BGS scientists are studying the diets of ancient British wolves and how they adapted to changing environments.
![Sophia Dowell, PhD student at BGS, conducting her research in Kenya. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sophia-dowell.webp)
The optimisation of plutonium separation
BGS research leads to advancements in the detection of plutonium and ultimately the determination of soil erosion rates in tropical soils.
![Glastonbury Tor rises above the low-lying wetlands of the Somerset Levels, one of the sample areas for the new research. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/P769823.jpg)
New method developed to identify wetland inhabitants
BGS-led research has helped develop a method to identify ancient human and animal wetland inhabitants.
![Fossils, including microfossils such as this foraminifera, can tell us about past climates and environments via analysis of their shells' chemical composition. Florilus asterizans from Hong Kong. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/P724548_960.jpg)
BGS laboratory spotlight: isotopes as recorders of climate and environmental change
How measuring oxygen and carbon isotopes in tiny fossils improves our understanding of past climate.
![Vanessa in the stable isotopes lab at the British Geological Survey. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/vanessa-nowinski-945px.jpg)
My experience as an international PhD student visiting BGS
PhD student Vanessa Nowinski describes her experience in the stable isotopes labs at BGS, while working on the famous Lake Suigetsu.
![Four-hundred-year-old bear paw bone (metapodial) showing where it has been sampled for isotopes and ancient DNA analysis. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/7CB62E87-0791-4727-AB91-7B67BD71C5E3.jpg)
Exploring animal diets in Shakespeare’s London
The ‘Box office bears’ project aims to understand more about the bears that were once a common sight in England. Prof Hannah O’Regan and Dr Lizzie Wright from the University of Nottingham explain what the project entails.
![Cattle grazing in green grass with a saltwater creek running between the animals.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cattle-grazing-saltmarshes.jpg)
When did the cows come home?
PhD student David Osborne is exploring Bronze Age animal husbandry using isotopes and X-rays.