The Dutch government has decided to return the Dubois Collection to Indonesia. This decision was made by the Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, Gouke Moes, based on the recommendation of the independent Colonial Collections Committee. Naturalis…

“This lemur is brown.” These kinds of old, concise notes were often encountered by Pepijn Kamminga, collection manager of the bird and mammal collection, when he and his colleagues compiled the first type catalogue for the mammal collection of Naturalis…

The giant panda is the icon of nature conservation. From September 5, a panda has been added to the Naturalis museum collection. The panda will be on display in the exhibition hall Leven until the start of January. The object is on loan from the Muséum…

Marcel Beukeboom will take up the position of general director of Naturalis Biodiversity Center on September 8, 2025. He succeeds Edwin van Huis, who has been at the helm of Naturalis for 14 years and is now retiring.

Each summer, a team from Naturalis Biodiversity Center travels to the United States to dig for dinosaur fossils, and this year is no different. Right now, a team of paleontologists and preparators of Naturalis’ dinosaur lab is excavating a fossil site in…

Tiny organisms called foraminifera can be incredibly useful for protecting coral reefs. Promovenda Elsa B. Girard developed a method to study them more efficiently. “This way, you can act before the corals are impacted.”

Today the Supervisory Board of Naturalis announced that Marcel Beukeboom will be appointed General Director of Naturalis Biodiversity Center as of September 8, 2025. He will succeed Edwin van Huis, who was at the helm of Naturalis for the past 14 years…

Using X-ray imaging methods, Naturalis researcher Richard Dearden and colleagues at the University of Birmingham and the Natural History Museum in London have discovered what the cartilages that surrounded the brain of the 455-million-year-old fish…

The wood of every tree is different, and promovenda Vicky Beckers worked on ways to better distinguish between different wood species. This is important for our understanding of plant evolution, but customs authorities also benefit from it: "This research…