• With a Bite: World’s Largest Worm Lizard Fossil Discovered

    The approximately 50-million-year-old animal from Tunisia could crack snail shells with its powerful jaws

  • Tiefsee Lebewesen

    Neither Desolate nor Empty: Deep-sea Floor Teems with Life

    New overview study shows diversity of habitats and organisms in the Arctic deep sea

  • How brain evolution is linked to the use of tools

    Research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen combines experimental archaeology with the recording of brain waves

  • Fledermaus

    Lake Messel: A Death Trap for Bats?

    The mortality rate of bats at modern-day swimming pools is comparable to that at Messel 47 million years ago

  • Weird Species
    New Senckenberg Podcast

    Weird Species

The three museums of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research display exciting results of Senckenberg research as well as globally unique exhibits and changing exhibitions on important topics of natural science.

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