Marcel Beukeboom will take up the position of general director of Naturalis Biodiversity Center on September 8, 2025. He succeeds Edwin van Huis, who has been at the helm of Naturalis for 14 years and is now retiring.

Each summer, a team from Naturalis Biodiversity Center travels to the United States to dig for dinosaur fossils, and this year is no different. Right now, a team of paleontologists and preparators of Naturalis’ dinosaur lab is excavating a fossil site in…

Tiny organisms called foraminifera can be incredibly useful for protecting coral reefs. Promovenda Elsa B. Girard developed a method to study them more efficiently. “This way, you can act before the corals are impacted.”

Today the Supervisory Board of Naturalis announced that Marcel Beukeboom will be appointed General Director of Naturalis Biodiversity Center as of September 8, 2025. He will succeed Edwin van Huis, who was at the helm of Naturalis for the past 14 years…

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…

The wood of every tree is different, and promovenda Vicky Beckers worked on ways to better distinguish between different wood species. This is important for our understanding of plant evolution, but customs authorities also benefit from it: "This research…

Biologist Vincent Merckx has been appointed as a special professor of Biodiversity and Symbiosis at the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses on the interaction between plants and fungi, and the development of techniques to measure and monitor…

For a long time, we didn’t know, but now they must finally show their true colors: early mammals had dark brown fur. This discovery was made by an international team of researchers, including Liliana D’alba from Naturalis Biodiversity Center. By studying…

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ nests, from different periods, has now been published in…