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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…

New research

2022.01.13

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…

New study

2021.12.08

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…

Grant

2021.09.15

Large research grant for the study of living and fossil plants

Can plant cell wall polysaccharides survive for millions of years and be measured in fossils? Can…

New employees

2021.07.13

Meet our new curators

It is with great pleasure that we announce the names of our four new curators at the Natural Histor…

Collaboration

2021.03.04

Natural History Museum of Denmark joins the Global Coalition for Biodiversity

The European Commission's global cooperation to support biodiversity calls on all the world's…