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Skeleton of an adult cave bear next to a cub in a former exhibition at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels. (Photo: Thierry Hubin, RBINS)
27/07/2023

Jaw analyses show what cave bears and brown bears ate

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Reinout Verbeke

The differences are in the details: Special 3D shape analyses of the jaws and dentition of cave bears and brown bears living at the same time near the Goyet caves show their clearly different food spectrum. In contrast, the diet of brown bears living around 30,000 years ago differs only s

Floating icebergs in a Greenlandic fjord originating from a marine-terminating glacier. (Image: UGent/A. Vanreusel)
10/07/2023

The Belgica Documents Climate Change in Greenland Fjords

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Kelle Moreau

On the 13th of July 2023 the new Belgian oceanographic research vessel RV Belgica is leaving from Reykjavik, Iceland, for a trip of three weeks to southwest Greenland.

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Newly described fly species Platypalpus pictitarsoides (Photo: RBINS)
03/07/2023

New fly species described from the Jardin Massart in Brussels

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Reinout Verbeke

Entomologists from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have described three new species of fly. They were collected at the Jardin Massart, a botanical garden on the outskirts of Brussels, during a major inventory project with the help of dozens of citizen scientists.

RV Belgica (Image: Freire Shipyard)
28/06/2023

First RV Belgica Mission to the Far North

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Kelle Moreau

Using the ocean to reduce carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere

The surveillance aircraft in action over the navy vessel P902 POLLUX during a national pollution response exercise POLEX. (Image: Belgian Navy)
16/06/2023

North Sea aerial surveillance in 2022

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Kelle Moreau

In 2022, the aerial surveillance team of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences realised 244 flight hours over the North Sea. 19 cases of operational marine pollution from ships were observed, two involving oil and 17 other harmful substances.

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