A team of Belgian and French palaeontologists has described a new dinosaur species that had scissor-like teeth.
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26/10/2017
Palaeontologists Discovered a ‘Primitive Iguanodon’ With Scissor-like Teeth
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Reinout Verbeke
25/10/2017
Fossil Discovery of Pygmy Right Whales on Northern Hemisphere Rewrites Their History
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Jonas Van BoxelPalaeontologists have found two fossils of ancient pygmy right whales in Sicily and in Japan. The study, by an international team with researchers from our Institute, changes everything we thought we knew about this mysterious animal.
17/10/2017
Ornithologists Band Long-tailed Shrike at Zwin Nature Parc: New Species for Belgium
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Reinout VerbekeOur ornithologists have banded a Long-tailed Shrike at the Zwin Nature Reserve in Knokke. Never before was this species recorded in Belgium. It is only the fifth time that this Asiatic bird makes an appearance in Europe.
16/10/2017
28 New Amphipod Species Discovered in Antarctica
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Reinout VerbekeBiologists Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz and Marie Verheye of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have discovered no less than 28 new amphipod species in Antarctica.
25/08/2017
Dinosaur 'Silky' Is A Key Fossil in Feather Evolution
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Reinout VerbekeBelgian palaeontologists have described a new, 165 million year old dinosaur species from Northern China. Serikornis sungei –nickmane ‘Silky’ – is an important fossil in the evolution of feathers in dinosaurs. Silky had feathers on its four limbs, but could not fly.
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