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SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Morphology Research Morphology Evolution Dunlop Lab Jason Dunlop's research group studies fossil arachnids and their relatives, with a particular focus on evolution and biogeographical history.
Press release, 01-02-2019
Evolution Research Fossils Reptiles
Bone cancer discovered in the oldest known turtle Paleontologists from MfN Berlin and medical researchers are together doing a research on disease.
Press release, 22-06-2016
Digitalization Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Cooperation
Modern imaging techniques reveal the unusual teeth of a nearly 300 million year old relative of mammals Fossil mammal with special features in the skull, including an extremely dense field of exceptionally large teeth on its palate
Press release, 11-03-2026
Research Fossils
Tracking the memory of rocks: Bromacker is 4 million years older than previously thought When a few millimetres make a difference of four million years: the Bromacker fossil site is older than previously thought. This was recently discovered by a team of researchers involving the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Tue | 06/11/2019 | 17:35 Publications - Dynamics of Nature Publication list of the Science Programme Evolution and Geoprocesses
Press release, 02-09-2025
Research Fossils Insects Plants
The oldest insect plague in the history of the Earth A team of palaeontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, has described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with associated egg deposits, based on plant fossils.
Press release, 22-04-2016
Amphibians Evolution Fossils Morphology Ecosystem
A useful heritage? Capacity to regenerate body parts may be the primitive state for all four-legged vertebrates A team of paleontologists of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the State University of New York at Oswego and Brown University shows in a new study of fossil amphibians that the extraordinary regenerative capacities of modern salamanders are likely an ancient feature of four-legged vertebrates was s
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Research Amphibians Extinction of Species Fossils Past and present influences on extinction risk in amphibians Today we know that some traits influence the extinction risk of amphibians – but what about the past? Can we use knowledge from the fossil record to learn about the present and improve conservation?
Press release, 27-04-2022
Amber Research Fossils Spider
The "missing link" of ticks Khimaira fossus combines the body of a soft tick with the mouthparts of a hard tick.
Press release, 19-07-2022
Extinction of Species Fossils Climate Change
Who survives climate change? Researchers from the museum and the University of Erlangen investigated extinction events with rapid global warming over the past 300 million years.
Press release, 07-03-2016
Evolution Cooperation Morphology Birds
Synchrotron-based chemical imaging reveals plumage patterns in Archaeopteryx A key collaborator on this project was Dr. Daniela Schwartz-Wings (Curator at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), who kindly loaned two of the priceless Archaeopteryx fossils scanned in the course of this study.
Tue | 02/02/2016 | 12:14 Spinosaurus In its special exhibition Spinosaurus, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin displays the first scientifically accurate and full-size skeleton ever assembled of this gigantic, approximately 100-million-year-old predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period.
Press release, 22-11-2024
Research Fossils Science Communication
50 years since the first bone discovery at Bromacker Today, the 290-million-year-old Bromacker in Thuringia is one of the world's most important fossil sites.
Press release, 03-06-2024
Research Spider Knowledge Transfer
Germany’s oldest harvestmen were shiny fellows! Germany’s oldest harvestmen were shiny fellows!
Press release, 07-06-2019
Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Insects
Trilobites had eyes like insects and crustaceans The eyes of trilobites were studied in a new paper published in the international journal Nature Communications by a team of scientists with Jason Dunlop from the Museum für Naturkunde.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Diversity Dynamics Research Biodiversity Evolution Fossils Earth Sciences Seafood in the Utah desert Species diversity of marine ecosystems increased dramatically around 470 Million years ago. Richard Hofmann investigates whether competition was a driver of this development.
Press release, 22-10-2020
Extinction of Species Database Evolution Climate Change Cooperation Ecosystem
The largest biome on earth in peril? Museum für Naturkunde Berlin investigates connection between global warming and plankton extinction
Thu | 09/11/2025 | 13:41 What digestion leaves behind It looks like a stone, but it is fossilised faeces – Arnaud Rebillard investigates (un)digested remains of vertebrates found at Bromacker.
Tue | 06/11/2019 | 18:00 Publications - Evolutionary Morphology Publication list of the Department Evolutionary Morphology
Mon | 02/10/2020 | 15:15 Extinction risk foreseeable Global warming risks: modern and fossil ecological responses speak in unison

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