Bloody insights: Organs-on-chip ready to help snake venom research
A 3D model of imitation blood vessels will make it possible to see exactly how snake venom attacks blood vessels, without having to use laboratory animals. This new research model, called an organ-on-a-chip, was developed by a research team from Vrije…
Ice Age fossils neatly organized
Cave lion, brown bear, aurochs: they all could be found in the Netherlands, once, long ago during the Ice Age. The CollAction team didn't know that, but now we pass the skulls, bones, teeth through our hands every day, as we neatly store their fossils.
Beetle drawers soot, dust and gems
Much of the beetle drawer lids are quite to very dirty. The CollAction team has been working on the beetle drawers, producing many dirty black wipes, and clean glass covers. And occasionally we come across beetle gems.
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…