Richard Smith, scientific collaborator at our Institute, has won the Morris Skinner Prize for his contribution to vertebrate palaeontology. Smith is honoured especially for the Dormaal collection of fossil vertebrates from the early Eocene.
In the Netherlands, research of stranded porpoises showed that almost 20% of them had been killed by grey seals.
Belgian biologists have discovered three new stick insect species in Vietnam. One of them is 32 centimetres long and the second largest insect on earth.
Fossils suggest the ancestor of horses and rhinos originated on the Asian subcontinent while it was still an island.
You’ve visited our Museum or our research institute? Post your pictures and videos using #naturalsciencesbrussels!