![Reconstruction of the 34-million-year-old whale skull from Antarctica - the second-oldest "baleen" whale ever found. (by Carl Buell)](https://www.naturalsciences.be/sites/default/files/styles/adaptive/public/News_Llanocetus_head_Carl%20Buell_01_EN.jpg?itok=ouBZM9SD "Reconstruction of the 34-million-year-old whale skull from Antarctica - the second-oldest "baleen" whale ever found. (by Carl Buell)")
At least some whales became giants long before the emergence of filter feeding, a 34-million-year-old whale skull suggests.
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10/05/2018
Ancient Skull Suggests Whales Were Giant Before Baleen Arose
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Reinout Verbeke
11/04/2018
Fusion18 | Get inspired by our collections!
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Charlotte DegueldreFusion18 is a temporary installation bridging the gap between the natural sciences and drawing. Discover our collections through scientific illustrations of our specimens, works by a well-known artist and sketches by enthusiastic amateurs.
21/03/2018
The Genomes of Five Late Neandertals Provide Insights Into Neandertal History
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Reinout VerbekeResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have reconstructed the DNA of five ‘late’ Neandertals, two of them found on Belgian ground.
09/03/2018
Bone Analysis Confirms: ‘Little Iguanodon’ is a Separate Species
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Reinout VerbekeInside the glass cage of the Bernissart Iguanodons in the Museum of Natural Sciences, one much smaller specimen stands out. But its bone structure is of an adult animal, an analysis by Koen Stein (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) concludes.
26/02/2018
Tools Made of Animal Bones in Burial Site in Belgian Cave
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Reinout VerbekeScientists have identified tools in a 6.000 year old grave in the Abri des Autours cave, near the Belgian city of Dinant. It is the fourth Neolithic burial site in Belgium where worked animal bones were found.
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