GLACIAL ROCK FLOUR 2016.04.26 Greenland mud to ensure the world's food supply A new research project headed by Professor Minik Rosing from the Natural History Museum, University…
Conservation 2016.04.21 Better data needed to stop sixth mass extinction Call for better data as study reveals just 5% of datasets meet a ‘gold standard’ needed for…
STANDARISATION 2016.03.30 Thomas Pape elected as President of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Thomas Pape from the Natural History Museum of Denmark was recently elected as President of the…
Digitization 2016.03.30 21,500 types of flowering plants have been registered and scanned and are available on the internet The project to make types of vascular plants at the Natural History Museum of Denmark…
biodiversity 2016.03.22 UNESCO supports new SNM project UNESCO selects project that will uncover the onset of the greatest increase in marine biodiversity…
Savings and cutbacks 2016.02.26 Changes to public engagement at the Natural History Museum of Denmark In 2016, a number of changes to opening hours and public engagement at the Natural History Museum o…
BRAIN 2016.02.24 Dodos might have been quite intelligent, new research finds A-ray scans reveal that dodo brain size was similar to pigeons, likely had had enhanced ability to…
635 GRAMS 2016.02.15 Large meteorite exhibited during the winter holidays The Geological Museum in Copenhagen now exhibits a big piece of the meteorite that landed in a…
ERC 2016.02.12 Two giant grants from the EU to the Natural History Museum of Denmark The Natural History Museum of Denmark has received two large research grants totalling approximatel…
Nature 2016.02.09 Experts urge extreme caution on “rewilding” to save wild places Efforts to “rewild” the landscape have become increasingly popular, but a new paper led by the…