Apollo butterflies full of surprises
The CollAction team was deployed to transfer about 120,000 Apollo butterflies to standard drawers. This work allows these butterflies to be used in science. During this task, the CollAction-team quickly encountered some surprises.
Molluscs fossils in liquid
Much of the mollusc fossils in Naturalis' collections are stored in liquid, namely silicone oil. This was done to prevent or stop damage to the fossils. Part of work of the CollAction team was to check for damages in the mollusc fossils collection.
Dino die-in demonstration: vote against extinction
On Wednsedag May 22 - World Biodiversity Day - Naturalis Biodiversity Center calls upon the coming Dutch government to pay more attention to the bad state of nature. Over a hundred protestors in dinosaur costumes will drop down at 9:30, as a nod to the…
Vast DNA tree of life for plants revealed by global science team
Scientists use 1.8 billion letters of genetic code to build groundbreaking tree of life.
Naturalis Will leave X
Naturalis Biodiversity Center will leave X - the platform formerly known as Twitter - at the end of this week. The ongoing and uncontrolled rise of hate speech and disinformation on the platform makes this sadly necessary. We will continue our mission to…
Triceratops teamed up Research shows that five three-horned dinosaurs lived - and died - together
From The Land Before Time to the Jurassic Park franchise, the famous horned dinosaur Triceratops is shown living in herds. There wasn’t really much of a reason for this if you looked at the fossil record of the species. Until now: years of research into a…
Biodiversity restoration: where to start as an organization
The biodiversitycrisis is a risk for our society and economy. Organizations can do something about this by taking biodiversity-conscious steps. But where to start as an organization? Alliander, Impact Institute and Naturalis Biodiversity Center have…
Day of the PhD defense Werner de Gier
On Tuesday The 19th of March half past two Werner de Gier defended his PhD thesis titled: 'Ecomorphological aspects in the evolution of endosymbiotic crustaceans’, in the academy building in Groningen. For his PhD research at Naturalis and the university…
Naturalis advice for biodiverse verge management
How do you create a biodiverse verge? How do you preserve it? And what are the benefits of natural verge management? A team of researchers from Naturalis investigated precisely these questions on behalf of clients ProRail and HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions.