A new database maps the total collections from 73 of the world’s largest natural history museums and herbaria in 28 countries, revealing a total collection of more than 1.1 billion objects.
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24/03/2023
Worldwide collections database maps 1 billion objects
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Reinout Verbeke
31/03/2022
Mammals put brawn before brains to survive post-dinosaur world
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Reinout VerbekePrehistoric mammals bulked up, rather than develop bigger brains, to boost their survival chances once dinosaurs had become extinct, research suggests.
08/02/2022
A fossilised tusk of a straight-tusked elephant from the North Sea. New in the Museum!
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Kelle MoreauEarly July 2020, a Dutch shrimp trawler in Belgian territorial waters hauled up nothing less than an elephant tusk in its nets.
24/11/2021
170 species named after King Leopold III and Queen Astrid
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Reinout VerbekeTwo of our Institute’s taxonomists - biologists specialised in the discovery, description and classification of species - have found 170 species of animals named after King Leopold III and Queen Astrid in our collection and in databases.
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21/09/2021
Belgian mussels developed stronger shells
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Siska Van ParysBelgian mussels have developed stronger shells over the last hundred years. More calcareous shells protect them better from crabs’ claws and seagulls’ beaks. These predators have increased significantly in number during the last fifty years.
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