A four-legged whale from Peru indicates that early whales crossed the South Atlantic before 42.6 million years ago and may have propelled like otters: with a robust tail and webbed fingers on their long feet.
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04/04/2019
Four-Legged Whale Ancestors Reached South America in an Otter-Like Swimming Style
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Reinout Verbeke
21/12/2018
Tested and approved: affordable application of new DNA sequencing technologies
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Siska Van ParysScientists of our institute and the RMCA (Royal Museum for Central Africa) have successfully applied a technique enabling the collection of DNA of many specimens at a relatively cheap cost.
06/12/2017
Stolen Dinosaur Skeleton Turns Out To Be Swimming Raptor
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Reinout VerbekeAn international team of scientists, along with Belgian palaeontologists, has described a new dinosaur that could swim. It is the first time this adaptation has been found so clearly in a dinosaur.
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16/10/2017
28 New Amphipod Species Discovered in Antarctica
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Reinout VerbekeBiologists Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz and Marie Verheye of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have discovered no less than 28 new amphipod species in Antarctica.
25/08/2017
Dinosaur 'Silky' Is A Key Fossil in Feather Evolution
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Reinout VerbekeBelgian palaeontologists have described a new, 165 million year old dinosaur species from Northern China. Serikornis sungei –nickmane ‘Silky’ – is an important fossil in the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs. Silky had feathers on its four limbs, but could not fly.
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