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Sea change: new blueprint for Southern Ocean survival

20/10/2023

More than 200 scientists from 19 countries published the first comprehensive assessment of trends in Southern Ocean ecosystems. They emphasize that climate change is the main driver of species and ecosystem change in the Southern Ocean and coastal Antarctica.


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Neuer Name, neue Identität und neue Website

19/10/2023


Museum

VIDEO - Wie wir GIANTS gemacht haben

16/10/2023

Das Making-of einer "riesigen" Ausstellung


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Knokke Leatherback Turtle died as a result of acute trauma

09/10/2023

Until a dead leatherback turtle was found on the beach in Knokke on 7 October 2023, we knew of only three strandings of this species in Belgium. The autopsy shows that an acute but unknown trauma caused the animal's sudden death.


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Citizen scientists describe 31-million-year-old driftwood with attached sea life from Schelle

06/10/2023

Amateur palaeontologists have unearthed a large piece of driftwood that ended up in the sea some 31 million years ago and around which a lot of marine life fossilized. A rare find.


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Invasive alien species: how to tackle one of the five main causes of the biodiversity crisis?

09/09/2023


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Predatory adaptations in the large Jurassic marine reptile Temnodontosaurus

01/09/2023

Palaeontologists have found among Temnodontosaurs - Jurassic-era sea predators - that not all species were equally well adapted to catching large prey.

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Une nouvelle espèce de cicadelle ressemble à Triceratops

31/08/2023


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Newly described ancient whale could be the heaviest animal ever

02/08/2023

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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Kieferanalysen zeigen was Höhlen-bären und Braunbären fraßen

27/07/2023

Anneke van Heteren und Mietje Germonpré zeigten in ihrer neuen Studie, dass sich die beiden Zeitgenossen unterschiedlich ernährten.