By combining satellite images with a new type of genetic analysis, a research team led by the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Frankfurt (SBiK-F) was able to decipher how […]
Autor: Firma Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research // Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Fossil Find in Syria: Unknown Sea Turtle Discovered
Near the Syrian city of Afrin, an international research team, including researchers from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, has discovered a previously […]
Angola: Wild Animal Trade Threatens Biodiversity and Health
Angola is home to an impressive diversity of species – but the country’s biodiversity is severely threatened by illegal hunting, habitat loss, and the consumption of bushmeat. A research team, […]
Small Tools, Big Animals: 430,000-year-old Butchery Investigated
An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat by humans in the southern Balkans. At Marathousa […]
Raccoons: Invasion on Four Paws
As part of the joint project ZOWIAC (Zoonotic and Wildlife Ecological Impacts of Invasive Carnivores), a research team from Frankfurt has analyzed hunting data from two decades in 398 German […]
Not So Hot After All? Fossil Lizards and Snakes Reveal New Information About the Eocene Climate
A research team from the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung has investigated ancient climate during the Eocene epoch some 56 to 34 million years ago, using a new method based on […]
Visible from Space: Loss of Genetic Plant Diversity
An international research team led by Senckenberg scientist Dr. Spyros Theodoridis has investigated the effects of the increasing greening of many European mountain regions on the genetic diversity of plants. […]
47-Million-year-old Buzzing: First Fossil Cicada Discovered in the Messel Pit
For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is one of the oldest known representatives of the modern-day true cicadas in Eurasia, […]
Frankfurt Conservation Award (Bruno H. Schubert Prize): International Award for Teaching, Research, and Applied Nature Conservation
Today, the Bruno H. Schubert Foundation is presenting the international Frankfurt Conservation Award 2025 (Bruno H. Schubert Prize). This year’s award winners Joji Cariño, Dr. Rosie Trevelyan, and Dr. Hà […]
A Deep-sea Octopus is the “Mollusk of the Year 2025”
The deep-sea octopus Muusoctopus has won the title of “International Mollusk of the Year 2025.” Muusoctopus received the majority of votes in the public online poll, beating three sea snails […]