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Press release, 22-04-2016
Exhibition Evolution Finance Research Cluster Cooperation Saur
Original T-Rex Skull has arrived at the Naturkundemuseum in Berlin TRISTAN is one of the world’s best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens, and it’s on its way to Berlin.
Press release, 22-04-2016
Evolution Morphology Reptiles
Reptilian embryos uncover the origin of snake anatom In collaboration with a colleague from Zürich, Ingmar Werneburg from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin discovered how snakes lost their limbs.
Press release, 22-04-2016
Biodiversity Insects Ecosystem
Scientists Announce Top 10 New Species for 2015 On the SUNY--‐ESF list: An agile spider, a North American dinosaur, a fish that makes circles in the sand and a bone-house Wasp
Press release, 22-04-2016
Insects Cooperation Ecosystem Knowledge Transfer
Diggers from Down Under eleven new wasp species discovered in Australia
Press release, 22-04-2016
Evolution Fossils Genetics Mammals Knowledge Transfer
The first mammals were looking through the night - as revealed by visual pigment evolution The origin of mammals, one of the most successful groups of living land vertebrates, took place at night. Researchers from the Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany, and the University of Toronto, Canada, published this result in the journal Evolution
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
Press release, 22-04-2016
Amphibians Evolution Research Cluster Cooperation Ecosystem
Southern Tropics as cradle for vertebrate biodiversity in the Paleozoic An international team of scientists including Jörg Fröbisch, Professor for Paleobiology and Evolution at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, discovered a new 278 million year old fossil vertebrate fauna with new species of amphibians and reptiles in northeastern Brazil.
Press release, 22-04-2016
Extinction of Species Evolution Fossils Climate Change Saur
Extinction drove diversification in early land vertebrates Selective extinction events, rather than evolutionary novelties, may be the key factor responsible for determining the dominant land vertebrates.
Press release, 22-04-2016
Amphibians Evolution Fossils Earth Sciences Collection
A new giant amphibian from the Triassic of Bielefeld Wissenschaftler des berliner Publication with the Berlin scientist Florian Witzmann, Museum für Naturkunde
Thu | 04/21/2016 | 10:21 Society and Nature Society and Nature View on the exhibition hall with visitors from the second floor The Science Programme focusses on the interactions between society and nature. Ideally, knowledge about and for nature arises in dialogue and exchange with the public. All activities of the Science Programme aim to better understand, analyse, communicate and further develop knowledge and decision-making processes in the field of nature and biodiversity, together with various stakeholders. Based on excellent and relevant research, we create interactive experimental and action spaces, and develop event formats with various groups from civil society, politics and business.
Wed | 04/20/2016 | 10:07 Evaluation 2012 An international expert group acknowledges that research at the Museum für Naturkunde was very good to excellent, and exhibitions were very good.
SP2 Collection Future Transfer Open Museum Knowledge Transfer Science Communication Collection Society New edition 2020: The nature of things The research project “Wissensdinge” / The nature of things aims to make these multi-layered, cultural interpretations visible in an exemplary fashion. We want to bring the diverse contexts and interpretations of scientific specimen to light.
SP2 Collection Future Research Open Museum Politics Collection Cuban Corals in East-Berlin The project investigates the history of natural science work in Berlin in the 1960s and 1970s and takes as its starting point the objects in the Museum’s collection.
SP2 Collection Future Research Transfer Open Museum Collection Society Fossils Cultural Heritage Berlin’s Brachiosaurus as an Object of Knowledge Based at the Museum für Naturkunde, this sub-project deals with the Brachiosaurus brancai as an important first-hand scientific object of study, an emblem of prestige for the museum, and especially as a terrific opportunity to rehabilitate German paleontology as a biological discipline.
SP2 Collection Future Research Transfer Open Museum Collections Management Politics Knowledge Transfer Science Communication Society Evolution Fossils Cultural Heritage Dinosaurs in Berlin The project focuses on the role of Brachiosaurus brancai as an icon of politics, science, and popular culture in the hundred years from its excavation to the present day.
Tue | 04/12/2016 | 09:20 Jobs Academic Staff Non-academic Staff Student Assistant Practical Training Volunteering
Thu | 04/07/2016 | 10:46 T. rex vs Spinosaurus They would never had encountered each other, but still, online discussions about which would have been the stronger one are lively. Our experts give answers.
Press release, 05-04-2016
Biodiversity Evolution Fossils Morphology
Ancient scorpions from Saxony in Germany Perhaps even a mating pair, come from the 291 million year old Petrified Forest of Chemnitz?
Press release, 05-04-2016
Citizen Science Finance Research Cluster Society Knowledge Transfer
The nationwide flagship project "GenaU" will soon be 10 years old Invitation for Representatives of the Press
Press release, 05-04-2016
Exhibition Museum Visit Science Communication
Verband deutscher Präparatoren (Association of German Preparators and Taxidermists) holds conference at the Naturkundemuseum in Berlin. Invitation for Representatives of the Press

Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung