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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.
Invasive alien species: how to tackle one of the five main causes of the biodiversity crisis?
09/09/2023
Predatory adaptations in the large Jurassic marine reptile Temnodontosaurus
01/09/2023
Une nouvelle espèce de cicadelle ressemble à Triceratops
31/08/2023
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.
Kieferanalysen zeigen was Höhlen-bären und Braunbären fraßen
27/07/2023
The Belgica documents climate change in Greenland fjords
10/07/2023
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.
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.
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.