Biologists from the University of Ghent discovered that bird skin becomes darker towards the equator. Tanned skin protects birds from harmful UV light. This evolutionary pattern was already know for humans and reptiles.
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02/06/2020
Underneath The Feathers: Darker Bird Skin Protects Against UV Light
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30/04/2020
3 Million Year Old Skeleton From Port of Antwerp New Puzzle Piece In Whale Evolution
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Reinout VerbekePaleontologists have described a new baleen whale species that swam around the North Sea some 3 million years ago. Antwerpibalaena liberatlas is an extinct cousin of the modern right whales.
06/04/2020
Scan of Small Crocodile of Bernissart Reveals New Details
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Reinout Verbeke125 million years ago a small crocodilian was living in our regions alongside the famous iguanodons. Now, the skull of ‘the small Bernissart crocodile’ has been scanned.
02/04/2020
Observing two Peregrine falcon couples who installed their nests in Brussels
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Reinout VerbekeNature and its lifecycles enter our houses and our day to day lives, during this strange period of confinement …
13/03/2020
CT Scan Reveals a Rare Snake Inside a Snake
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Reinout VerbekeYou know the Russian matryoshka dolls? Well, while CT-scanning a Samar cobra snake from our collections, we found another snake inside: a rare species of about the same size!
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