Two experts have published a richly illustrated reference work of fossil chondrichthyans, cartilaginous fishes including sharks, in the collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. The monographic update is the result of a thorough check-up.
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23/03/2023
Monograph provides overview of fossil cartilaginous fishes in our collection
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Reinout Verbeke
01/03/2023
Ice Age Survivors
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Reinout VerbekeLarge-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years – they took shelter in Western Europe but died out on the Italian peninsula.
18/01/2023
Egyptian tomb with ten crocodile mummies discovered
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Reinout VerbekeSpanish archaeologists made an unusual discovery in southern Egypt: a still undisturbed tomb containing ten mummified crocodiles. Archaeologists from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences had the opportunity to study the mummies.
07/09/2022
Did early whales function the same way as marine reptiles?
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Reinout VerbekeResearch from ULiège and RBINS investigated the morphological similarities between the earliest whales and ancient marine reptiles from the dinosaur-era, the mosasaurs. Four specimens from our collections were used for this study.
25/08/2022
Digging Jurassic Dinosaurs in Wyoming: ‘Camarasaurus’ Morris
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Reinout VerbekeThe third excavation season in central Wyoming is a spendid one for the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences: three dinosaurs from the late Jurassic era. A - at first sight - young Camarasaurus, a Dryosaurus and possibly a Brachiosaurus.
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