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King Philippe visits research vessel Belgica
29/04/2022
On Thursday 21 April 2022, His Majesty King Philippe visited the new research vessel RV Belgica.
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Ten strategic recommendations for sustainable sand extraction
26/04/2022
Sand is vital for building the foundations of our society. Currently, around 50 billion tonnes of this raw material are extracted worldwide each year, and the growing world population is only increasing demand.
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Ten new species of predatory fish from Lake Edward
22/04/2022
A team of Belgian researchers has described ten new species of small predatory fish from Lake Edward. Scientists have long suspected that this lake between the DR Congo and Uganda is home to exceptional fish diversity.
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Pterosaurs already had coloured feathers
20/04/2022
Pterosaurs, flying reptiles and close relatives of the dinosaurs, already developed feathers of different shapes and colours. This has been proven by a 115 million year old Brazilian fossil, studied by a team of palaeontologists.
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A unique cooperation and new scientific challenges for the research vessel Belgica!
10/04/2022
On Thursday 31 March 2022, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and the North Sea, Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne, and the State Secretary for Relance and Strategic Investments, in charge of Science Policy, Mr Thomas Dermine, visited the new Belgian research vessel 'RV Belgica'.
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Mammals put brawn before brains to survive post-dinosaur world
31/03/2022
Prehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research suggests.
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Video 'Expedition Inkanamongo' - In search of the source of zoonoses in DR Congo
25/03/2022
Biologist Nicolas Laurent and his research team go on an expedition to the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the remote village of Inkanamongo.
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Extraordinary addition to our collections: long-necked dinosaur 'Dan'
09/03/2022
The nearly complete skeleton of a large, 20-meter-long herbivorous long-necked dinosaur, acquired in 2019, has arrived at the Institute of Natural Sciences.
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Reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring
23/02/2022
An international team of researchers has discovered that the asteroid that wiped out almost all the dinosaurs came down in spring. This is indicated by the growth and feeding patterns of fish that died immediately after the impact.
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A fossilised tusk of an elephant in the North Sea!
08/02/2022
Early July 2020, a Dutch shrimp trawler in Belgian territorial waters hauled up nothing less than an elephant tusk in its nets.