Een biodiverse berm in Zwolle, credit: Frans Willem Blok
February 22nd, 2024

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.
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Artist impression of Alienacanthus
February 6th, 2024

Why the long face?

Researchers from - among others - Zürich University and Naturalis helped describe a remarkable fossil fish from 365 million years ago.
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Picture of .... (Culex pipiens)
December 11th, 2023

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…
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Clean-up kano's in action
November 28th, 2023

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…
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Vacht van een mierenegel
November 10th, 2023

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.
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