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20 July 2020|News

Viruses Gone Wild? A New Installation at the Zoological Museum Sheds Light

Photo: UHH/CeNak

At a completely new section at the Zoological Museum, a newly designed display case provides information about zoonoses—infectious diseases that can...

26 June 2020|News

The Center of Natural History (CeNak) Is to Become Part of the Leibniz Association

Photo: UHH/RRZ/MMC, Mentz

The Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz, GWK) has decided that CeNak at Universität Hamburg will be incorporated into the...

26 June 2020|News

“The way is clear for a new Hamburg natural museum of history”

Prof. Dr. Glaubrecht in the zoological collection of Universität Hamburg

Photo: Sebastian Engels

Today, the Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz, GWK) decided to merge the Center of Natural History (CeNak) at Universität...

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22 June 2020|Research

IceAGE: Copepods and Their Role in the System of Life

Photo: Alexandra Petrunina

Nancy Mercado Salas is setting sail today on the expedition ship Sonne. Her destination is the deep sea of the North Atlantic near Iceland. Together...

19 June 2020|Event

Bioblitz in Hamburgs Parks and Gardens

In der Park- und Grünanlage „Obere Bille“ in Hamburg-Bergedorf mit seinen Feucht- und Nasswiesen machten sich die Tier- und Pflanzenspezialisten in Taucheranzug oder ausgerüstet mit Kescher und Bodenfallen auf die Suche und wurden fündig: Sie wiesen

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Wenzel

What are wild herbs, what are ornamental flowers, where does the park begin, and where do the woods end? Under the motto “Naturally Hamburg,”...

25 May 2020|Research

Climate Change Has Influenced Human Evolution Differently Than Previously Thought

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Kaiser; National Museum and House of Culture, Daressalaam

The food our human ancestors ate usually reveals a lot about their environment. Climate change 2.8 million years ago must have also left its mark...

11 May 2020|News

Decision Made to Establish a New Museum of Natural History

Photo: UHH, RZZ/MCC, Mentz

Hamburg is getting a new museum of natural history. The decision was announced by senator for science Katharina Fegebank on Friday evening, 8 May...

7 May 2020|Research

Research on the World’s Most Venomous Spider

Die Trichternetzspinne (Atrax robustus) lebt mitten in Sydney. Nach dem Guiness-Buch der Rekorde ist sie die gefährlichste Spinne der Welt.

Photo: Peter Michalik, Universität Greifswald

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the most dangerous spider in the world—its venom can kill people in less than an hour. And...

9 April 2020|Exhibition

#closedbutopen: Our digital museum’s offers

Photo: Absolute Software GmbH

We are bringing the Zoological Museum directly to your living room via your monitor: for example, you can follow Humboldt on his expedition to South...

9 April 2020|Research

Dinosaur research at CeNak

Die Fossilien gehören zu Tieren der pflanzenfressenden Dinosauriergattung Suuwassea und wurden 2009 an ein und demselben Fundort in der Morrison Foundation ausgegraben.

Photo: Foto: UHH, Kröninger

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...

3 April 2020|Interview

Coronavirus Pandemic—Zoonoses and the Role of Pangolins

Photo: Pixabay

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...

13 February 2020|News

Further Discoveries of the Asian Hornet in Hamburg and What That Means

Photo: Willi Müller

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

3 February 2020|News

German Council of Science and Humanities: Positive Letter of Notification about the Merger with the ZFMK

Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz

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

21 January 2020|Registration

Prominent Guest Speakers to Feature at the Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS)

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Mentz

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

15 January 2020|News

StadtNatur 2020 is a weekend full of activities focusing on nature in Hamburg. This years motto is Naturally Hamburg!

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Gerisch

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...

12 December 2019|News

Wattboden exhibition opening: Broker between the worlds

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Möckel

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...

5 December 2019|News

Large crowds at book presentation

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Gerisch

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

9 November 2019|News

CeNak experts appointed to Hamburg’s council for nature conservation

Martin Kubiak in the entomology collection

Photo: UHH/CeNak

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

5 November 2019|Forschung

Research Cooperation: International Workshop in Indonesia

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Haas

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...

9 September 2019|News

Treasure of the month: Humboldt’s nightbird

Photo: UHH/CeNak, Stau

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

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