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Is this Hamburg dinosaur group a family consisting of a mother, a father, and offspring? Did young and old even live together? And what did they eat...

A new study published in Nature looks at the role that pangolins have played in the novel coronavirus as it made its way from bats to humans...

Further discoveries have confirmed the assumption that the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) has settled in Hamburg. Following the discovery...

The German Council of Science and Humanities approves the merger between the Center of Natural History (CeNak) and the Zoological Research Museum...

For the first time, the Center of Natural History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg is issuing invitations to the Society for Biological Systematics’...

On their search for cuckoo bees, the common asparagus beetle, and quaking grass, plant and animal experts will be exploring Hamburg’s green nooks and...

Big words for what seems no more than a drab expanse. Speakers at the opening of the special exhibition Watt erleben—Wattboden verstehen at the...

“Humankind’s pioneer spirit is also the cause of its impending doom,” said CeNak director Matthias Glaubrecht when announcing his new book on...

The sustained preservation and the development of diverse biotopes and their inhabitants in the city of Hamburg is one of the leading principles of...

From 23. to 26 October a student workshop was held near Medan (Sumatra, Indonesia) on the biology and field methods to study frogs and tadpoles. Prof...

You can find our September treasure twice at the Zoological Museum! Steatornis caripensis, locally called guácharo, is known as the oilbird in...

The most famous victims of any mass extinction were doubtlessly the dinosaurs: around 66 million years ago, they were suddenly wiped off the face of...

Why do species become extinct? How can we record and preserve our planet’s biodiversity and fauna? A team of researchers and students at Ilia State...

They are time capsules from prehistoric times: tiny animals preserved in amber can give us insights into an era when Central Europe had a subtropical...

Whales may be the world’s largest mammals, but they are not the easiest sea creatures to research. In several projects, some of which are funded by...

In der Sommerzeit ist sie vielen Wanderern, Naturfreunden und Outdoor-Campern ziemlich lästig – auf die Hamburger Künstlerin Julia Stoess übt Aedes...

Mit ihrer langen, zum Teil bunten Behaarung sehen sie aus wie Hummeln. Dabei tricksen Hummel-Waldschwebfliegen (Volucella bombylans) nicht wenig mit...

Was krabbelt und fliegt im Hamburger Hafen? Welche Tiere kann man auf der Insel Neuwerk entdecken? Und wer versteckt sich im Heidekraut? Der Lange Tag...

Von März bis Mai war Dr. Helena Herr vom Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) auf dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern an der Westseite der Antarktischen...