For the first time, researchers in Ecuador have discovered amber fossils from the Cretaceous period on the South American continent. The approximately 112-million-year-old find from the Hollín Formation in the […]
Autor: Firma Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research // Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
The Earth’s Lungs: Diversity as a Survival Strategy
In the face of climate change and increasing droughts, the Amazon rainforest – one of the largest and most important ecosystems on Earth – is under ever-increasing pressure. A new […]
Beech Forests: Fit for Climate Change?
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 […]
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, […]