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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…

The mystery of the type collections

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

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…

A romantic evening is not held in the Botanical Garden

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…

How new bird species arise

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

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…

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…

New study maps how new bird species are formed in New Guinea

A new study from the Natural History Museum of Denmark changes the researchers' understanding of ho…

166 new fungal species found in Denmark for the first time

Jan Pedersen, collection staff at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, is together with a Spanish…

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