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Citizen scientists describe 31-million-year-old driftwood with attached sea life from Schelle

06/10/2023

Amateur palaeontologists have unearthed a large piece of driftwood that ended up in the sea some 31 million years ago and around which a lot of marine life fossilized. A rare find.


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Invasive alien species: how to tackle one of the five main causes of the biodiversity crisis?

09/09/2023


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Predatory adaptations in the large Jurassic marine reptile Temnodontosaurus

01/09/2023

Palaeontologists have found among Temnodontosaurs - Jurassic-era sea predators - that not all species were equally well adapted to catching large prey.

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Une nouvelle espèce de cicadelle ressemble à Triceratops

31/08/2023


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Newly described ancient whale could be the heaviest animal ever

02/08/2023

Perucetus colossus, an ancient whale that swam off the coast of present-day Peru 39 million years ago, rivals the blue whale as the heaviest animal ever.


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Kieferanalysen zeigen was Höhlen-bären und Braunbären fraßen

27/07/2023

Anneke van Heteren und Mietje Germonpré zeigten in ihrer neuen Studie, dass sich die beiden Zeitgenossen unterschiedlich ernährten.

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The Belgica documents climate change in Greenland fjords

10/07/2023


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New species of flies at the Jardin Massart in Brussels

03/07/2023

Entomologists have described three new fly species. They were collected at the Jardin Massart on the outskirts of Brussels.


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First RV Belgica Mission to the Far North

28/06/2023

A team of scientists has embarked in Reykjavik to study the possibilities of reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by encouraging the alteration of silicates in the ocean.


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Edgar Kesteloot (1922-2023): father of nature conservation in Belgium

19/06/2023

Edgar Kesteloot, a former colleague at the Institute of Natural Sciences, will forever remain one of the founding fathers of nature conservation in Belgium.