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Die thematische Sonderausstellung Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald führt die Besucherinnen und Besucher des Zoologischen Museum Hamburgs vom 10. November 2017 bis 29. März 2018 in den bedrohten Lebensraum (Regen-)Wald und hinterfragt das koloniale Erbe der Naturkunde.

The Treasure of the Month this October is a digital representation of a Common Toad, Bufo bufo. It is brought to you by the cooperation with the Hamburg based company, YXLON International GmbH using their YXLON FF35 CT imaging system.

The Center of National History (CeNak) at Universität Hamburg warmly invites you to attend its lecture series Literature Meets Nature on Thursday 26 October at 7 pm for a reading from "Die Humboldts in Berlin." In his book, Humboldt specialist Peter Korneffel paints a portrait of the two...

Researchers from Universität Hamburg, Hamburg residents, and numerous plant and animal specialists spent a weekend taking stock of the city's plant and animal species, one of the largest inventory efforts of its kind. Now the Center of National History (CeNak) has presented its findings: On 17...

As far as Matthias Glaubrecht is concerned, artistic perceptions of nature belong in natural history museums. Glaubrecht sees the exhibition "Disappearing Legacies: The World as a Forest" as an ideal addition to the exhibition on the Anthropocene in the new lobby of the Zoological Museum. In...

Researchers still study the arduous historical route on which Ferdinand Magellan found passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific in 1520. The head of the Department of Invertebrates I at CeNak Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, however, is looking more closely at tiny animals in the sand than the gap...

For the special exhibition "Disappearing Legacies: The World as a Forest" artistic works are now turning the Zoological Museum into a rain forest. From 10 November 2017 to 29 March 2018 there will be audivisual installations, photographs, films, and sculptures on environmental change in...

Spiders are not the most beloved of creatures, and especially not among children. And yet they are very useful: they eat flies, mosquitoes, and beetles. Engineers are in awe of their fantastic webs and attempt to recreate their durable, multifold material. And really, spiders are very...

A razorback whale swimming in your living room, twisting, turning, and diving back down into the deep? Sure! With this new App! Visitors have been able to admire Finni, a razorback measuring 20 m, in the Hamburg Zoological Museum since April 2017. Now they can take him home using augmented...

September's treasure is a petrified fish from CeNak's geo-and paleontological collection. The thick, robust ganoid scales of the Lepidotes resemble armor. [Read on in German]

The Center of Natural History and several charitable foundations in Hamburg invite the public to the 5th annual Foundation Week. There will be a wealth of information on water protection in Hamburg and wild bee protection. [Read on in German]

In 2016 the Hamburg Ministry for the Environment and Energy (BUE) commissioned scientists at the Center of Natural History (CeNak) to analyze the presence of select animal groups in Hamburg's Duvenwischen wetlands. The study, which provides the basis for designating the wetlands as a...

Sonnige Strände, tropische Wälder, ökologische Vielfalt. Australien ist ein Paradies – auch für Spinnen. Tatsächlich leben in der ursprünglichen Fauna, die von keiner Eiszeit dezimiert wurde, etwa zehnmal so viele Spinnen wie in Deutschland, geschätzt 9 000 – 11 000 Arten. Sie sind größer als...

Was für den Laien wie moderne Kunst aussieht, ist für Geologinnen und Geologen ein Schatz an Informationen für die Klimaforschung. Naturgetreu dokumentiert der sogenannte Lackfilm geologische Ablagerungen in lockeren Sedimenten. Die Sammlung von Lackfilmen der Universität Hamburg ist mit 600...

18 zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen und Künstler folgen den Spuren des Naturforschers Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913) zu den Hot Spots der Artenvielfalt in Südostasien und Südamerika. Sie ziehen Linien von der Entdeckung der Welt bis zur Zerstörung des Lebensraumes für Tiere und Pflanzen, bis...

Zigtausende Kinder und Erwachsene besuchen jährlich das Zoologische Museum. Doch was den meisten Besuchern verbogen bleibt, ist die immense Arbeit in den wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen, von denen nur ein kleiner Bruchteil in den Ausstellungen zu sehen ist. Neben Wissenschaftlern und...

Eine Hamburger Bürgerin hat diesen Rehschädel im Oktober 2016 in einem Waldstreifen bei Bergedorf gefunden und an die Säugetierabteilung des Centrums für Naturkunde weiter gegeben. Der Fund ist ungewöhnlich. Auch die Nagespuren.

An exciting and unique exhibition in the Zoological Collections at the University of Rostock will be open to the public until the beginning of next year. Eleven natural history collections and museums in NORe, an umbrella association for the North and Baltic Sea regions, have joined forces and...

The winner of the photo competition "Nature in the City" has now been named: Matthias Weiner came in first place with his photo of a rust-colored Ochlodes venatus, commonly known as the "large skipper" butterfly. Weiner took the photo at the Geoergswerder energy barrier during an excursion as...