An angler called @NHM_Denmark having caught a small shanny (Lipophrys pholis) at Løkken in Northern Jutland. This species is a new registration from Danish waters and will now be featured in the upcoming book "Atlas over danske saltvandsfisk" fiskeatlas.ku.dk/
Congratulations to Natasha de Vere @NdeVere with promotion to Full Professor and Curator of Botany at @NHM_Denmark . Inaugural lecture on 3 October: "Plants, pollinators, and human well-being: building connections and resilience in a changing world." pkunet-shared.ku.dk/nyhedsru…
Watch, People of the Bridge, an engaging and beautiful documentary exploring earth through people and science. A film by @UndergroundGeo streaming on Waterbear. waterbear.com/watch/people-o…
Hi Twitter - Underground Channel is streaming on #Waterbear networks. 'People of the Ice Bridge' follows a scientist and local hunters from Qaanaaq. To watch 👀 waterbear.com/watch/people-o…
#dkvid #geocenter #science #indigenous #natureguardians 📺
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/wild-wo…
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.
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Beautiful SEM scans provide new evidence for co-evolution of tiny marine copepods and their diatom prey in @NHM_Denmark @DTUtweet study.
Feeding on diatoms causes significant wear and tear on copepod teeth leading copepods to become selective feeders. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
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
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 @NHM collections. doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/b…
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 @NHM_Denmark study by @rasmushav in Ecosphere. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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-conservators-…
Come explore new @NHM_Denmark 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
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ALT Come explore new @NHM_Denmark 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 https://snm.dk/en/exhibition/wild-wonderful-world
Congratulations to @AndersDrud 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 @NHM_Denmark palm house, in the Danish Pavillon during OL in Paris.
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Denne nyhed har jeg glædet mig til at dele. Vores smukke Palmehus og historien om dets ældeste plante udstilles som digital installation i Paris under OL. Tak til alle som har gjort denne produktion så speciel. #dkkultur
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Herpetology curator @MarkScherz 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.
In Hawaii the fragrant scent of Gardenia is thought to bring happy tidings, yet Hawaii's Gardenia are critically endangered. New @NHM_Denmark @NTBG paper out on Gardenia seed conservation physiology. doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.1201…
New @NHM_Denmark 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
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.
Congratulations to Mike Opgenorth with the PhD degree from @NHM_Denmark in collaboration with @NTBG on Conservation Horticulture of Hawaiian Gardenia. Supervisor @NinaRonsted. PhD committee @NdeVere. Patrick Griffith, Montgomery Botanical Center, and @ol1grace, @RBGE_Science.
Congratulations to @BenBotanical with the PhD degree from @NHM_Denmark in collaboration with @NTBG in Hawaii on Drone applications in plant conservation - supervisor @NinaRonsted. PhD committee Alex Antonelli @KewScience, @Marti_March and @anderstottrup. Huge conservation impact
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We now got 841.000 records online @NHM_Denmark - among these some of our cool deep sea fishes - take a peek
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Interested in Danish fossils? And/or helping build a fossil collecting community? Our new fossil website mitfossil.dk has just launched! 🥳🦖🎉
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