Wide variety of mosquitoes found in Rotterdam
Since the discovery that mosquitoes can transmit diseases, researchers have been interested in their distribution. However, the insect often continues to be a city resident that remains unnoticed. Therefore, researchers have now produced an overview of all…
25 years of research compiled in Flora of the Guianas
On the 30th of November the book on the flora of the Guianas was festively presented at Naturalis. The book is a unique collection of the tropical plant family Annonaceae, also known as the soursack family, from Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname.
De Grachtwacht wins award
The Leiden initiative De Grachtwacht, which has been cleaning the canals since 2018, received the NWO Communication Initiative Award yesterday. Founders Auke-Florian Hiemstra and Liselotte Rambonnet, affiliated with Naturalis and Leiden University, are…
Not the last of his species after all
A British expedition has shot the first ever images of a Sir David Attenboroughs long-beaked echidna. Until then, the specimen at Naturalis was considered to be the only evidence that the species ever existed at all.
Day of the PhD defense: Ajaree Thonglim
On Thursday the 9th of November Ajaree Thonglim defended her PhD thesis titled: ‘ Disentangling drought-responsive traits with focus on Arabidopsis ’ in the academy building in Leiden. For her PhD research at Naturalis and the university of Leiden she…
Naturalis will build a huge new research infrastructure for tiny bits of DNA
Naturalis Biodiversity Center is going to build a research infrastructure specifically for biodiversity monitoring using minuscule amounts of DNA. With it, the research institute will map biodiversity in a higher resolution than ever.
ABP, SSE Renewables and Naturalis team up to work on marine biodiversity
Today, pension fund ABP, SSE Renewables and Naturalis Biodiversity Center signed an agreement to work together on biodiversity at sea. ABP and SSE renewables are participating in the tender for wind energy area IJmuiden Ver through the coalition Noordzeker…
More than 10,000 hidden structures in the Amazon
Hidden in the Amazon forest are thousands of remnants of ancient civilizations. These hidden structures, also called geoglyphs, reveal much about the history of the Amazon. A major study of these geoglyphs and their relationship to the forest was published…
Evolution of the skull further uncovered with a 455-million-year-old fish
Using X-ray imaging methods, Naturalis researcher Richard Dearden and colleagues at the University of Birmingham and the Natural History Museum in London have discovered what the cartilages that surrounded the brain of the 455-million-year-old fish…