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    Ecosystems over time

     How ecosystems function, both on land, in freshwater, and in marine environments, is influenced by the way their living and non-living components interact. Using fossil evidence from the deep past informs on changes in climate and on other physical variables that have triggered biotic events (extinctions, recoveries, radiations...).

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    GIANTS

    A journey through time to meet 11 gigantic animals that lived after the dinosaurs. An ENOURMOUS chance to feel small as can be next to these live-sized giants!

    The Bernissart Iguanodons at a glance

    Thirty relatively complete iguanodon skeletons were discovered  in a coal mine in Bernissart, at the end of the 19th century.

    02/08/2023

    Newly described ancient whale could be the heaviest animal ever

    Perucetus colossus, an ancient whale that swam off the coast of present-day Peru 39 million years ago, rivals the blue whale as the heaviest animal ever.

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