Are you mad for Meerkats and potty for Penguins? Fancy getting to spend lots of time with our amazing animals? We have a couple of very exciting positions to join our animal talks and feeding presenters team on a voluntary basis. As part of our team you will get to know our animals really well […]
A pair of Common Marmosets are the latest addition to the recently refurbished St Andrew’s Aquarium. The adorable little monkeys were rescued from private collections and re-homed to the Fife visitor attraction from Heathrow Animal Rescue Centre this week. The breeding pair, who as yet have no names, wasted no time in settling into their […]
Staff at St Andrew’s Aquarium are celebrating the return of their beloved six-foot mackerel statue which disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The eye-catching model – nicknamed Big Mac – has been standing guard outside the popular Fife visitor attraction for the last four years. However, Aquarium staff noticed something fishy was afoot following recent graduation festivities […]
A pair of adventurous Common Seals have travelled from the Norfolk coast to Fife to find a permanent new home in Scotland. Dug and Silver made the long, incredible journey by road to their new residence at St Andrews Aquarium from Hunstanton Sea Life Centre. Dug, a one-year old rescue seal and Silver, a three-year-old […]
The net is closing in on brazen thieves who pinched a beloved six-foot mackerel statue from St Andrew’s Aquarium. The eye-catching model – nicknamed Big Mac – has stood guard outside the popular Fife visitor attraction for the last four years. However, Aquarium staff noticed something fishy was afoot following last Friday’s graduation festivities when […]
Tayside residents are looking forward to this summer’s Maggie’s Penguin Parade, with a colony of colourful giant penguins appearing across Dundee and the surrounding areas over the past few days. Not to be frozen out… the REAL Humboldt penguins of St Andrew’s Aquarium, and the original inspiration for the Maggie’s models, have hatched their own […]
Visitors to St Andrew’s Aquarium this Easter will be the first to experience a brand-new exhibition highlighting the wonders of native marine species. Extensive refurbishment work has taken place over the winter months to create Cold Water Wonders, an engaging new zone packed with fascinating information about native sea life which will open for the […]
Tayside residents are looking forward to this summer’s Maggie’s Penguin Parade, with a colony of colourful giant penguins set to invade Dundee and generate much press coverage. Not to be frozen out… the REAL Humboldt penguins of St Andrew’s Aquarium, and the original inspiration for the Maggie’s models, are hatching their own plans to steal […]
Humboldt Penguins from St Andrews Aquarium’s Penguin are the real-life inspiration behind a colony of colourful giant penguins, set to invade Dundee and its surrounding landscape next summer as part of a Wild in Art fundraising event by Maggie’s Dundee. St. Andrews Aquarium have signed up to sponsor one of the 100 penguins, which will […]
Two West African Dwarf Crocodiles have been busy making themselves at home at St Andrews Aquarium. Nelson and Desmond have moved into their newly built enclosure at the Fife-based aquarium, which has undergone a wave of refurbishments over the last eighteen months. The two crocs, which come from the smallest species of crocodiles, are native […]
