Scientists have found constructions in a cave in the south west of France that are 176,500 years old. This makes them among the oldest known human constructions. Neanderthals built structures with broken stalagmites and used them as fireplaces.
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25/05/2016
Constructions in French Cave Indicate Neanderthals Were More Modern than Assumed
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23/05/2016
Save the Biodiversity - 1001 Decisions
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[displayName]On May 20, 2016 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Belgian ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Biodiversity is life! But that life is threatened ...
12/05/2016
Last chance: Call for abstracts North Sea Open Science Conference 2016
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[displayName]From 7 – 10 November 2016, OD Nature of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the Belgian Biodiversity Platform, organise the North Sea Open Science Conference 2016 in Ostend, Belgium. The call for abstracts will be closed on May 15th.
03/05/2016
Narwhal in the River Scheldt Probably Died of Starvation
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[displayName]On 27 April 2016, a dead narwhal was found in the river Scheldt, near the sluice of Wintam (Bornem). The autopsy revealed that the animal probably died of starvation. The narwhal is an arctic species that has never before been observed in Belgium.
02/05/2016
Belgian Fossil Represents Earliest Ancestors of Europeans
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Reinout VerbekeA 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.
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