• Werkzeuge von Frühmenschen

    Small Tools, Big Animals: 430,000-year-old Butchery Investigated

    Early humans used a sophisticated combination of techniques and materials to make tools

  • Drive to survive: The seemingly impossible reproduction of dogroses hinges on a centromere trick

    How centromeres enable a special form of reproduction

  • Waschbaer

    Raccoons: Invasion on Four Paws

    New study shows the dispersal patterns of raccoons in Germany and Europe

  • Messel-Zikade

    47-Million-year-old Buzzing: First Fossil Cicada Discovered in the Messel Pit

    Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest true cicada described from Europe to date

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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