Researchers from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, have recovered more than 300 skeletons of cave hyena cubs from a prehistoric cave in southern Belgium.
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02/02/2022
Skeletons of hundreds of Ice Age hyena cubs found in Belgian cave highlight severe ecological event that struck northern Europe about 45,000 years ago
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23/12/2021
Supergene turns spider into a ‘macho male’
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Reinout VerbekeBiologists from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences found in a spider species that 'macho males' have an extra set of genes that is lacking in feminized males.
02/12/2021
Two primitive mammals that lived at the end of the dinosaur era
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Reinout VerbekePalaeontologists from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have described two primitive mammals from the Upper Cretaceous that lived about 70 million years ago. One was excavated in Inner Mongolia, the other in Romania.
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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23/11/2021
Marine mammals developed thicker bones as diving weights in super salty sea
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Reinout VerbekePalaeontologists have discovered that marine mammals developed thicker and heavier bones as an adaptation to a salty inland sea in Central Europe some 13 million years ago.
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