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Mon | 02/28/2022 | 07:52 Human Remains at the Museum für Naturkunde The history of human remains in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Research and historic responsibility
Thu | 01/23/2020 | 13:45 DINOSAURS! Age of the giant lizards The new special exhibition "DINOSAURS!" lets you discover dinosaurs from the three geological eras Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous for the first time.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Morphology Research Morphology Collection Fossils Palaeopathology Many diseases also affect the bones. Palaeopathology is able to diagnose and interpret traces of disease on fossil skeletal material using medical methods and techniques.
Press release, 04-03-2016
Extinction of Species Earth Sciences Climate Change Knowledge Transfer
Mini-algae influence the world climate A new study led by Museum scientists suggests that global warming itself could cause many diatom species to go extinct, reducing ocean carbon removal and further enhancing global warming.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Morphology Research Morphology Database Mammals Biodiversity Evolution Fossils Climate Change Evolution in the savannah Unsere Forscher untersuchen nun Koexistenz einhergehend mit Konkurrenz am Beispiel afrikanischer Antilopen.
Wed | 12/07/2022 | 13:28 Woolly mammoth from Berlin-Neukölln Even though mammoths became extinct several thousand years ago, we have a very concrete idea of these animals. Similar in popularity to whales or dinosaurs, every child can describe a mammoth or correctly recognize one in a picture.
Sat | 07/02/2022 | 17:00 bis 23:45 Long Night of the Sciences During the Long Night of Science, more than 60 scientific and science-related institutions in Berlin and Potsdam will open their doors from 5 pm to midnight.
Press release, 17-03-2022
Finance Research Cooperation Research Data Management
Sudan and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin conduct joint research in the new ERC project PALEONILE Interdisciplinary research into the palaeontology of the Nile Basin in Sudan
Press release, 12-08-2022
Research Fossils Earth Sciences
How life on land learned to breathe This discovery indicates that prerequisites of the mammalian way of walking and breathing were already present in some distantly related Permian ancestors.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Diversity Dynamics Research Biodiversity Fossils The leaves of the Cretaceous For a long time only comparatively few representatives of monocotyledonous plants from the Cretaceous period were known. A cabinet in Berlin contained new evidence of the earlier diversity.
Press release, 22-08-2022
Exhibition Fossils Earth Sciences Reptiles
Dinosaurs! Age of the giant lizards New special exhibition until 30 November 2023
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Diversity Dynamics Research Morphology Extinction of Species Evolution Fossils Oceans in temperature-related stress Temperature-related stresses can degrade marine ecosystems and drive species to extinction. Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin are testing if there are early responses before extinctions occur.
SP2 Collection Future Research Infrastructure Database Research Data Management Digitalization Services Scientific Data As integrated research museum, the Museum für Naturkunde administers and supports a number of services enabling access to scientific data.
SP1 Dynamics of Nature Evolutionary Morphology Research Morphology Collection Evolution Fossils Palaeobiology and systematic relationships of Jurassic sauropods My research area is centered around aspects of functional morphology, palaeoecology and systematic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs from the Jurassic, with the purpose to find out more about the paleobiology of this dinosaur group within their ecosystems.
Press release, 08-02-2017
Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Ecosystem Mammals
A new look at horse evolution New Science publication about the evolution of horses
Press release, 22-03-2022
Research Fossils Society Event Science Communication
Immortal? Finale of the science variety show Glitzern & Denken Sind sie unsterblich?
Press release, 07-03-2016
Extinction of Species Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Climate Change Ecosystem
Ancient mammal relatives cast light on recovery after mass extinction A study of how the ancient relatives of modern mammals recovered after mass extinction raises fresh questions about the capacity for life to recover from cataclysmic events.
Press release, 18-05-2017
Extinction of Species Evolution Research Cluster Fossils Earth Sciences Birds
Influential theory of island biodiversity validated 50 years after its publication First demonstration of an equilibrium between immigration, speciation and extinction being maintained over long time scales on islands
Evolutionary Morphology Research Collection Digitalization Evolution Fossils Tail wagging, the dinosaur way Palaeontologists have studied sauropod fossils from the Tendaguru site in Tanzania for more than 100 years. As technology advances, new approaches yield new glimpses of how these animals lived
Thu | 06/13/2019 | 10:11 Publications - Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery Publication list of the Department Biodiversity Discovery

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung