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“Toucan” of the dinosaur era discovered

Artist's impression of the primeval bird with the unusual beak. (Image: Mark Witton) A study shows that even between the dinosaurs, many different species...

Catalog ensures clarity in botany

Leipzig has the oldest botanical garden in Germany and is once again becoming an important center for plant research. (Photo: Swen Reichhold) Expanded and...

How Mars is still drying up

Researchers are on the trail of water loss on the red planet. (Petmal / iStock) H2O at astonishing heights: Scientists have discovered how our...

Featured picture: A shining mineral

At first glance, this blue-purple glowing mineral seems almost unnatural. But it is not illuminated in blue by artificial light. It is...

How much palm oil is there in candles?

How sustainable are stearin candles? (Image: Ridofranz / iStock) Light in the dark: Christmas is approaching and with it the high season for candles....

Similar to the atmosphere of Venus

Artist's impression of the hot, dense and CO2-rich primordial atmosphere (left) and today's gas envelope on earth (right). (Image: Tobias Stierli / NCCR...

What makes the leaves fall

The regulation of autumn leaf fall is complex (Image: Smileus / iStock) As soon as the days get shorter and the temperatures cooler, the foliage...

Insight into the end of a polar explorer

Researchers analyzed this roughly three millimeter blob in Jørgen Brønlund's diary. (Image: Kaare Lund Rasmussen / SDU) Tragedy in the cold of Greenland: The...

From fins to legs

How stable were the legs of the first shore leave? (Image: Davide Bonadonna) Around 390 million years ago, vertebrates first moved out of...

Comeback for “our” oyster

It has been considered extinct in the German North Sea for around 100 years. But now the European oyster is to be resettled...

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