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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...