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new professorship

2023.09.19

Citizen Science receives a significant boost

Despite the increasing worldwide interest in citizen science, research into the concept itself…

Renovation

2023.05.10

We are renovating the paths in the Botanical Garden

The paths in the Botanical Garden will be renovated over the next few years. The first stage starts…

Nature

2022.08.23

New revelations about an ancient fish: the secret to swimming upside down

An after-hours trip to Aarhus University Hospital Skejby’s radiology department has shed light on a…

new film

2022.08.22

The mystery of the type collections

Behind the scenes of natural history museums, large rooms house thousands of specimens that are not…

Endurance

2022.07.22

Perspiration and an ingenious suspension prepared early humans for the yellow jersey

Unparalleled endurance allowed Homo erectus to tire antelopes on the savannah two million years ago…

Cancellation

2022.05.31

A romantic evening is not held in the Botanical Garden

New species

2022.04.13

10 new species of parasitic wasps found in amber collection

Four years ago, the Natural History Museum of Denmark bought a large amber collection with help fro…

Bird Life

2022.03.10

How new bird species arise

Much of a centuries-old debate over where and how new bird species form has now been resolved.…

New Research

2022.03.08

Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide…

New Video

2022.01.14

Video from the Natural History Museum of Denmark selected as one of the most beautiful stories on the internet

A new 360-degree video tells the marvelous story of a more than 180-year-old plant's journey from…