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Press release, 15-12-2025
Exhibition Fossils Society Saur Special Exhibition
Berlin’s Most Beautiful Smile – for 10 Years 10 Jahre T. rex Tristan Otto im Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: kulturelles Wahrzeichen und internationaler Publikumsmagnet mit messbarem Einfluss auf Tourismus, Forschung und das Stadtimage Berlins.
Mon | 02/09/2026 | 18:00 bis 19:30 Das Wasser und Wir The event language is German. Your Input Matters: We are gathering diverse voices on the changing water situation in Berlin and Brandenburg and exchanging ideas with decision-makers from politics and administration. Water is a key issue for the future of Berlin: A growing population is leading to increasing volumes of drinking water and wastewater. At the same time, the climate crisis and the phase-out of coal mining pose major challenges for Berlin's water supply.
Tue | 01/06/2026 | 18:00 bis 19:30 Guided tour "Queering Nature" A queer-historical view of nature and science
Press release, 04-12-2025
Evolution Research
Jaw versatility enabled the ecological success of amniotes New research reveals a burst in jaw variety in the earliest amniotes – which includes the ancestors of all reptiles, birds and mammals.
Mon | 12/01/2025 | 14:13 Position paper on the future of the data and digital science community published A new, comprehensive position paper on the importance of data and digital science in the German-speaking scientific system has been published. The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, represented by the WiNoDa Lab, is a co-signatory of this important initiative from the data and digital science community. It highlights the central role of data-intensive research and digital methods—from data analysis and AI to domain-specific expertise—for innovation in almost all disciplines.
Press release, 10-12-2025
Evolution Research Mammals
Cats’ purrs reveal who’s who better than their meows A new study with the participation of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin shows: a domestic cat’s purr reveals far more about its individual identity than its meow.
Press release, 13-11-2025
Digitalization Research
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin seeks new partners for innovative digitisation solutions The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is launching the next development phase of its ELIO innovation programme – Innovation in Object Digitisation – and is seeking new partners from the technology sector.
Tue | 12/16/2025 | 18:00 bis 19:30 Guided tour "Queering Nature" A queer-historical view of nature and science
Tue | 12/02/2025 | 18:00 bis 19:30 Guided tour "Queering Nature" A queer-historical view of nature and science
Press release, 05-11-2025
Research Genetics
Researchers discover an “all-body brain” in sea urchins An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has uncovered a surprisingly complex nervous system in sea urchins. The animals appear to possess an “all-body brain” whose genetic organization resembles that of the vertebrate brain.
Press release, 06-11-2025
Amphibians Biodiversity Research
Three new toads leap into the spotlight An international team of researchers has discovered three new species of tree toads from Tanzania that give birth to fully developed toadlets. A key element of the study was the examination of specimens housed in the wet collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.
Press release, 04-11-2025
Biodiversity Research
Rediscovery of the lost Turkestan Bat An international research team led by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has rediscovered a bat species that had been missing for 55 years.
Press release, 28-10-2025
Extinction of Species Evolution Fossils Reptiles
Fossils reveal how climate change threatens Australian reptiles A new study published today in Current Biology by an international team of scientists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, shows how Quaternary climate change has affected populations of a threatened Australian lizard species (Rankinia diemensis) over the last 20,000 years.
Wed | 12/17/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 12/10/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 12/03/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 11/26/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 11/19/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 11/12/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!
Wed | 11/05/2025 | 12:30 bis 15:30 Open Museum Studio in the Microscopy Centre In our Open Museum Studio the objects are not behind glass, but on your hand, in front of your nose or under the microscope!

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung