Brand-new T. rex skeleton Trix rolls out of the 3D printer
The T. rex skeleton nicknamed ‘Trix’, the well-known Tyrannosaurus rex at Naturalis, is going on a new journey. A reconstruction printed by Naturalis will soon be flying to the Dinosaur Museum in Nagasaki, Japan – and will be demonstrating the importance…
Bumblebees are moving up and that’s not a good thing
As the climate warms, plants that thrive at cooler temperatures are increasingly moving uphill. Their pollinators move up as well - if they succeed, at least. Researchers at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands compared their findings from the…
New Leiden Lectorate
The University of Applied Sciences Leiden and Naturalis are working together on a new lectorate in Metagenomics, in order to research the relationship between biodiversity and the health of humans, plants and ecosystems. The new lector is Arjen Speksnijder…
TDWG 2020 annual conference
TDWG (Biodiversity Information Standards) 2020 annual conference this week (19-23 oct)! Standards that describe and support the exchange of biodiversity information are critical to extending the usability of data across taxa, scientific disciplines, and…
Willem Renema is now a professor at the University of Amsterdam
Marine biologist Willem Renema is now professor of Marine Palaeobiodiversity (by special appointment) at the University of Amsterdam. He will combine his new function with his ongoing research into marine biodiversity here at Naturalis.
Ocean's canaries have survived previous perturbations in the Earth's carbon cycle
Pteropods, abundant aragonitic calcifying plankton, are the equivalent of "canaries in the coal mine" for our acidifying oceans. Their sensitivity to high CO 2 levels and limited fossil record has led to the widely held view that pteropods only became…
The Covid-19 Taskforce Reports
Missed the broadcast? After three months of intensive collaboration, the CETAF-DiSSCo Covid-19 Task Force presented preliminary results of the work of more than 60 international dedicated scientists and bioinformatics professionals from the natural science…
What the life of a geochronologist looks like
Text by: Manon de Visser, researcher at Naturalis A variety of studies are performed at Naturalis. Therefore, researchers learn more every day, also from each other’s work! As a biologist I regularly talk to my colleagues about their work. This time that…
Nationwide approach to boosting knowledge of biodiversity in the Netherlands introducing the Centre of Excellence for Netherlands Biodiversity Research
To boost knowledge about biodiversity in the Netherlands, a nationwide approach to scientific research is required. To make such an approach possible, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), the Royal Netherlands…