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Artist's impression of an Ice Age man (Image: Stephano Ricci)
02/05/2016

Belgian Fossil Represents Earliest Ancestors of Europeans

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Reinout Verbeke

A new study analysing the genomes of a few dozens of individuals from the ice age has identified the early ancestors of present-day Europeans. A 35 000 year old humerus from the Goyet caves in Belgium belongs to the earliest ancestors of Europeans.

Map of Belgium with geothermal potential (medium to very deep) and the (natural) geothermal wells. (RBINS, Estelle Petitclerc)
26/02/2016

Our Geologists Map Geothermal Resources

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Reinout Verbeke

The internal heat of the Earth can be used to heat houses and to generate electricity. Countries such as Italy, Iceland and Turkey use thermal energy for quite some time, and Greece and Germany are experimenting on a large scale. What is Belgium waiting for?

One of our palaeontologists, Floréal Solé, holding the mandible of the oldest carnivoran mammal of Europe. (Photo: Thierry Smith, RBINS)
19/02/2016

Oldest Carnivoran Mammal of Europe Discovered

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Reinout Verbeke

Researchers of our Institute have described the oldest mammalian predator of Europe. Vassacyon prieuri from Northern France is 57 million years old and is considered the earliest ancestor of modern-day cats and dogs.

Human bone fragments from the Goyet caves (Belgium), between 27,000 en 35,000 years old and belonging to haplogroups M or N. (Photo: Eric Dewamme, RBINS)
04/02/2016

European Humans Underwent Hefty Shuffle at the End of Last Ice Age

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Reinout Verbeke

European populations changed dramatically at the end of the last Ice Age. This is what scientists have revealed as a result of DNA analysis of more than thirty fossils from six countries.

Block with perinatal specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris (Photo: Thierry Hubin, RBINS)
15/10/2015

Baby Dinosaurs from Mongolia

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Reinout Verbeke

Belgian palaeontologists have described baby dinosaurs with associated shell fragments. The Saurolophus dinosaurs were likely from a nest. The find sheds more light on the earliest stages of development of this giant hadrosaur species with typical crest.

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