Defense day: Dewi Pramanik
On Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 10 a.m., Dewi Pramanik defended her thesis titled ' Evolution and development of flowers, fruits and inflorescences of Phalaenopsis and other orchid species ' in the Academy Building in Leiden. For her PhD research at Naturalis…
Making sense of animal sounds: "Bioacoustic AI"
Machine learning, often called "AI", makes it possible to uncover the mysterious world of animal communication, analyzing their sounds that convey so much information. A new project called Bioacoustic AI is going to make this happen, and will use that…
New: the family tree of your favorite vegetables (and 400 other species)
A team of international scientists has determined the first complete family tree of the cabbage family. It is now clear how many of the vegetables on your plate, the important research plant Arabidopsis , and their family members from all over the world…
Three young Naturalis researchers delighted with Veni grant
Three newly promoted Naturalis researchers received a Veni grant through the NWO Talent Program, to kick-start their scientific career. It gives the scientists the chance to further develop their ideas over the next three years in the areas of herbs…
Naturalis and the Indonesian Repatriasi Commission will collaborate closely
The Indonesian Repatriasi Commission and Naturalis will work together to explore how the importance of the Homo erectus fossils from the Dubois collection can best be safeguarded for Indonesia, the Netherlands and the rest of the world. This is the result…
Rebellious birds make nests out of anti-bird pins
Biologists present the latest innovation in nest building: bird nests made from anti-nesting spikes. Researchers from Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam collected these special nests for the first time and described this…
Geology of the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes: Earth science meets cycling
The Grand Départ is scheduled for 1 July, but the preparations for this year’s Tour de France started more than 400 million years ago, when the rocks of the Central Massif and the Vosges Mountains were formed. Behind every climb, descent, or flat stage is…
Fish survival in the extreme cold aided by genomic adaptations
An international team of biologists has sequenced the genomes of 24 Antarctic fish species to investigate how they survive the extreme cold. This work enables our study of how these organisms survive in the subzero Southern ocean and sheds light on the…
Swordtails, drummers and polka dots: new names for three groups of tropical shrimp
Shrimp researchers Werner de Gier and Charles Fransen had a dilemma: the classification of 'their' group of eighteen tropical shrimp species had to be revised. The species all come from tropical oysters, mussels and sea squirts, so no one has yet taken a…