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Press releases – Archive
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Quarrels and flirting in the church roof: Big-eared mice have a varied repertoire of sounds
Male greater mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis) have a lot to say – and every call sounds different. A new study shows that these animals not only possess a wide repertoire of vocalisations, but that these also carry individual characteristics.
The Future of Water in Berlin and Brandenburg: New project encourages dialogue between the public and politicians
Dry soil, heavy rainfall or a ‘sponge city’: changes in water management affect the entire capital region. This new project aims to gather local community knowledge on water and feed it directly into the political debate.
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin promotes free knowledge to mark Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary
To mark Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is taking part in a joint initiative involving more than 30 cultural, educational and memory institutions from Germany and Austria.
Visitors and podcasts – over a million for nature
In 2025, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin welcomed 737,918 visitors to its premises and recorded more than 550,000 streams of its two successful podcasts, ‘Beats & Bones’ and ‘Süßes oder Saurier’.
Regurgitated bones tell the story of hunting 290 million years ago
A unique fossil discovery in Thuringia provides the first direct insights into the feeding habits of early land predators.
Brecht Days 2026 at the Natural History Museum
The 2026 Brecht Days, running from 6 to 13 February, will focus in particular on the industrialisation of agriculture and, by extension, the relationship between technology and nature.
Artificial intelligence is speeding up the cataloguing of insect collections
Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin have teamed up with data scientists to develop a new method for extracting label information from digitised insect specimens in a largely automated process.
Oldest reptile skin impressions discovered in the Thuringian Forest
An international research team led by Dr Lorenzo Marchetti of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known reptile skin impressions to date, discovered in the Thuringian Forest.
Shift change in the cold: female Daubenton's bats share scarce feeding grounds at the edge of their range
A research team from the University of Naples Federico II, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and several international partner institutions tracked female Daubenton’s bats (Myotis daubentonii) using radio telemetry in newly colonised mountainous regions of the Italian Apennines.
A prehistoric herbivore with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth
An international team of palaeontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has discovered a new species of early terrestrial vertebrate from Brazil: Tanyka amnicola.
Unravelling the history of the rocks: the Bromacker is 4 million years older than previously thought
As part of the BROMACKER project, a team of scientists has discovered that the famous fossil site between Tambach-Dietharz and Georgenthal in the Thuringian Forest is older than previously thought.
Male bats sing in the rotor area of wind turbines
A research team led by the Museum of Natural History has demonstrated for the first time that various bat species produce courtship calls within the immediate vicinity of wind turbine rotors, whilst flying around the nacelle.
A surprise in amber: exotic harvestmen once lived in Europe
An international research team has discovered a previously unknown species of harvestman in amber dating back some 35 million years from Ukraine and the Baltic region, held in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
