Presseinformationen weltweit an Journalisten und Leser verbreiten
An exceptionally well-preserved, approximately 47-million-year-old owl fossil from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Messel provides new clues as to when owls became nocturnal. The newly described species Masillastrix blattophaga was likely still diurnal—as indicated by an iridescent cockroach in its Mehr
An exceptionally well-preserved, approximately 47-million-year-old owl fossil from the UNESCO World Heritage Site Messel provides new clues as to when owls became nocturnal. The newly described species Masillastrix blattophaga was likely still diurnal—as indicated by an iridescent cockroach in its Mehr
With water temperatures as low as minus 1.9 degrees Celsius, the Southern Ocean is a place of extreme living conditions. A new study led by Senckenberg researchers shows how fish have adapted to Antarctic temperatures. The researchers used the Antarctic Mehr
The Egyptian goose, native to Africa, is considered an invasive species of Europe-wide significance. Researchers from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and Goethe University Frankfurt spent four years investigating the ecological and economic impacts of its expansion. An Mehr
A research team from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt, the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Friedrich Schiller University Jena has investigated the impact of climate change on mammalian diversity in Central Asia Mehr
A research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Leiden University in the Netherlands has examined a tooth from the Schöningen archaeological site in Lower Saxony. In their study, now published Mehr
Archaeological legacy collections housed at the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory at Saint Joseph University in Beirut reveal the wide diversity of environmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean region during the Pleistocene. An international research team led by Dr. Gabriele Russo Mehr
A Chinese-German research team, including Senckenberg researcher Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, has investigated when and under what conditions the extraordinary biodiversity in eastern Tibet developed. The study, published in the journal “Nature Communications Earth & Environment,” shows that as early Mehr
A landmark assessment of recovery The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released the first Green Status Assessment for the eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei), offering the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the species’ recovery, ecological functionality, and Mehr
As delegates from around the world gather in Kingston, Jamaica, for high-stakes International Seabed Authority (ISA) negotiations to debate the future of deep-sea mining, a stark scientific warning has emerged from the ocean’s depths. An update of The IUCN Red Mehr