Congratulations to Anna Junker Olesen Anna Junker Olesen with the succesfull PhD defense NaturalHistoryDK May 3 on Toxic Marine Diatoms in Polar Regions – Inducible Defence Mechanisms and their Effects.

Baltic Amber are full of lifeforms trapped in time providing a window to past biodiversity. New NaturalHistoryDK paper presents two new fossil Robsonomyia species from baltic amber, also the first fossil members and the first genus records from Europe. rdcu.be/dGYSN

We now got 841.000 records online NaturalHistoryDK - among these some of our cool deep sea fishes - take a peek collections.snm.ku.dk/object/NHMD161…

Interested in Danish fossils? And/or helping build a fossil collecting community? Our new fossil website mitfossil.dk has just launched! 🥳🦖🎉 Upload your own (Danish) finds and help identify others!

Congratulations to Ben Nyberg with the PhD degree from NaturalHistoryDK in collaboration with National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii on Drone applications in plant conservation - supervisor Nina Rønsted. PhD committee Alex Antonelli Kew Science, Martí March-Salas and Anders Tøttrup. Huge conservation impact

Congratulations to Mike Opgenorth with the PhD degree from NaturalHistoryDK in collaboration with National Tropical Botanical Garden on Conservation Horticulture of Hawaiian Gardenia. Supervisor Nina Rønsted. PhD committee Natasha de Vere 🇪🇺. Patrick Griffith, Montgomery Botanical Center, and Olwen M. Grace, @RBGE_Science.

An automated moth trap has been deployed in our Botanical Garden to monitor activity of nocturnal moths and other insects as part of a Europe-wide project to understand the ongoing decline in insect populations by gathering the necessary base-line data for large-scale analyses.

New NaturalHistoryDK museum building nearly completed. We cant wait to install the new permanent exhibition galleries and welcome you all to a tribute to nature and future through 400 years of natural history. Underwater feeling in the Ocean Hall and winding staircases between floors

In Hawaii the fragrant scent of Gardenia is thought to bring happy tidings, yet Hawaii's Gardenia are critically endangered. New NaturalHistoryDK National Tropical Botanical Garden paper out on Gardenia seed conservation physiology. doi.org/10.5091/plecev…

Herpetology curator Definitely not @MarkScherz on all other platforms just received a slender snouted croc - Mecistops cataphractus - specimen. It sadly died from illness but will be in good care in our collections where it can help researchers understand the species better. Follow Mark for more herpetology news.

Congratulations to Anders Drud and team on being selected for a digital installation of the dreamy visual Letter to a Cycad, the story of the oldest plant from 1842 in the NaturalHistoryDK palm house, in the Danish Pavillon during OL in Paris. youtu.be/tlRhsNpZ_GQ?si…

Come explore new NaturalHistoryDK exhibition Wild Wonderful World, +1000 natural history collections telling their stories of species, collectors, and new knowledge, the last Great Auk or a time series of polar bear craniums showing the impact of pollution snm.dk/en/exhibition/…

Welcome to our blog universe following the conservation unit behind the scenes as we prepare objects from our scientific collection for the exhibitions in the new museum building of the Natural History Museum of Denmark. snm.dk/en/blog-conser…

Sex and size matter: Intricate dominance relationships in an East African large carnivore guild. Leopards loose out to hyeana in connection with human disturbance in Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania - New NaturalHistoryDK study by Rasmus W. Havmøller in Ecosphere. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

So Velvet ants are actually wasps. Even more confusing - they exhibit Müllerian mimicry - which is the resemblance between several harmful species, advertising their defence to would-be predators. New paper out from the New Hope Middle collections. doi.org/10.1093/biolin…

Danish Bird Ringing Center on fieldwork fitting GPS transmitters for monitoring white storks. The stork project has run since 2021. It has taught us about migration routes and death traps from high voltage masts to slurry tanks, which can then be mitigated saving more birds

Beautiful SEM scans provide new evidence for co-evolution of tiny marine copepods and their diatom prey in NaturalHistoryDK DTU study. Feeding on diatoms causes significant wear and tear on copepod teeth leading copepods to become selective feeders. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

The Botanical Garden turns 150 years in its current location. Join us in celebrating our work helping to care for more than 8000 of the Worlds plant species. snm.dk/en/botanical-g…

The dodo, Mauritius flightless bird, was easy prey and brought to extinction in 1600s. Meet dodo and 1000 other collection staff favorite objects and fascinating stories in our new exhibition celebrating 400 years of collections, history and research. snm.dk/en/exhibition/…

Watch, People of the Bridge, an engaging and beautiful documentary exploring earth through people and science. A film by Underground Channel streaming on Waterbear. waterbear.com/watch/people-o…