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Wed | 02/27/2019 | 11:50 Schoolgirl supervised by the Natural History Museum receives first prize in biology in the regional Jugend Forscht competition Charlotte Schneider is researching nightingales. Since 2018, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has been running the Citizen Science project "Nightingale Research Case" funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Nature enthusiasts in particular have collected acoustic recordings of the nightingale singing via smartphones, which are now being evaluated together with scientists. The aim is to gain new insights into the variability of song and the current distribution of the species. Hundreds of citizens have already done research and sent their data and recordings.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Solar System, Impacts & Meteorites Research Impact Earth Sciences From a Ball of Magma to the Blue Planet Impacts of cosmic bodies probably melted the young Earth completely. Researchers are investigating how a habitable planet has evolved from this hot phase.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Morphology Research Morphology Database Mammals Biodiversity Evolution Lifestyles of mammals Mammals have adapted to occupy various environments, including the land, the air and the water. But not all evolutionary adaptations are as clearly recognizable as legs, wings or flippers.
Evolutionary Diversity Dynamics Research Protection of Species Biodiversity Evolution Darwin Finches 2.0 Computer models show how species evolve in isolated habitats and how many thousands of years of evolutionary history can be lost if humans arrive.
Press release, 11-02-2019
Evolution Cooperation Cultural Heritage Politics
Generaldirektor and Federal President together on the trail of Alexander von Humboldt Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and his wife Sarah Darwin, will accompany Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier from 11 to 16 February 2019 to the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Ecuador.
Thu | 02/07/2019 | 17:23 Action Plan I of the Leibniz Research Museums (2018/19) How to digitise millions of collection items and make them publicly accessible? How to strengthen research in museums? How to best preserve collections, while also making them enjoyable for visitors?
SP2 Collection Future A Window on Nature and Art The natural and man-made objects collected in the Brandenburg-Prussian Kunstkammer are among the oldest surviving items of Berlin’s current museum collections.
Press release, 06-02-2019
Digitalization Research Cluster Mammals
Oh mother where art thou? Maternal care in common noctule bats. Biologists at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin used miniaturized proximity sensors to investigate maternal care in maternity colonies of bats.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Morphology Research Morphology Evolution Genetics Laboratories Brachiopods can see the light Already in the 19th century, zoologists noticed up to 16 pigment spots in the front part of certain brachiopod larvae. Since these larvae react to light their pigment spots were assumed to represent eye-like photoreceptors.
Press release, 04-02-2019
Evolution Morphology Mammals
Why can weasels climb? Evolution Morphology Mammals Press release, 04-02-2019 Biologists at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Royal Veterinary College have investigated how mammals evolve limbs for climbing, digging, and swimming by studying the internal structure of limb bones in the weasel family
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.
Thu | 02/07/2019 | 19:30 bis 21:00 Date an Expert An exchange around the current special exhibition ARTEFACTS.
Press release, 21-01-2019
Exhibition Evolution Research Cluster Cultural Heritage Collection Saur
Discovery of a new dinosaur genus Fauna von Sauropoden aus dem Jura des Tendaguru-Gebietes war noch viel diverser als bisher angenommen
Evolutionary Diversity Dynamics Research Genomics Morphology Mammals Collection Society Evolution From pig to pig Domestic pigs were bred from wild boars. Researchers are investigating how they have been genetically and physically altered over the past 100 years, including aspects of contemporary taste.
Press release, 18-01-2019
Exhibition Open Museum Collection Saur
T. rex Tristan Otto to stay in Berlin Tyrannosaurus rex stay longer than planned in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Press release, 11-01-2019
Exhibition Digitalization Collection Saur
3D model of the Tristan Otto skull created by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin Dinosaurs support clinical research
Tue | 01/08/2019 | 13:38 First direct evidence for a whale hunting whale - scenario in ancient oceans In a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, Manja Voss, a paleontologist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany, and colleagues describe the first direct evidence of diet in the fossil whale Basilosaurus isis.
Press release, 13-12-2018
Biodiversity Research Cluster Fossils Ecosystem Collection
Fossilized competition? Animal interactions controlled biodiversity in the geological past
Press release, 07-12-2018
Biodiversity Database Digitalization Evolution Research Cluster Fossils
Mystery of the missing quill solved A research team with contribution from Daniela Schwarz at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin got new information about the archaeopteryx fetherns of Berlin.
Press release, 07-12-2018
Evolution Politics Saur Science Communication
„Dinosaurierfragmente. Zur Geschichte der Tendaguru-Expedition und ihrer Objekte, 1906-2018“ A new book illuminates the history of a fossil object in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung