Nature reports
Publisher: Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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![Henk-Jan van der Kolk Geringde scholeksters met GPS-zenders](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/22a23c6d-d140-4df5-b4e5-9d7ba3f62286.jpg&h=170&w=270&v=1674211246)
Tens of thousands of animals around the world are monitored using GPS trackers to protect wildlife and study animal behaviour. The collected data are also useful for biodiversity research, but are seldom available on platforms..
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A new study reveals that it would take 3 million years to recover the number of species that went extinct due to humans on Madagascar. However, if currently threatened species go extinct, recovering them would take more than 20..
![Naturalis Achyranthes mangarevica Suess., een kleine boom alleen bekend van het eilandje Mangareva.](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/92a9dcf2-b10b-4fd8-afe6-c41e57b22f8b.jpg&h=170&w=270&v=1672142708)
If a dried specimen of an extinct plant species still has seeds in a herbarium, is the plant really extinct? A global team of scientists toyed with that question. To arrive at the answer, they made a survey of all extinct plants..
![Roderick Bouman Roderick Bouman](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/bf9f7885-155f-40bb-b91d-5ffd4a73c6b9.jpg&h=170&w=270&v=1670583552)
The plant genus Phyllanthus was large and complex. PhD student Roderick Bouman disentangled it. ..
![Jelger Herder Europese Boomkikker (Hyla arborea) (VOOR EENMALIG GEBRUIK)](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/20053232-906e-4a1a-94ed-5f4242d69646.jpg&h=170&w=270&v=1669820633)
Biology students from Leiden University have discovered two tree frog species in the Dutch coastal dunes that do not occur there naturally. A special DNA-technique revealed these potentially harmful tree frogs. Remarkable, but..
![Peter Nickolaus VOOR EENMALIG GEBRUIK Bewoners van het 'eiland van de dwergdinosauriërs' gelegen in het huidige Transylvanië tijdens het Krijt: Transylvanosaurus met schildpadden, krokodillen, grote pterosauriërs en andere dwergdinosauriërs](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/8bbe7cd4-26d8-4b26-9a80-4c0454409bf2.jpg&h=170&w=270&v=1669285325)
An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur in western Romania and named it after its location in Transylvania: Transylvanosaurus platycephalus lived about 70 million years ago, and..
![Sam Boerlijst](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/248c3a97-d1ab-4ec9-9fd5-ad94caa0550c.png&h=170&w=270&v=1667916523)
In 2018 , Naturalis Biodiversity Center conducted the first mosquito survey for the Dutch Leeward Islands – Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius and Saba – in more than 70 years. In November, they plan to repeat these surveys, this time..
![Roy Kleukers Rosse sprinkhaan](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/b6ffb777-55e8-47bc-9d82-cf5438ebe710.jpg&h=170&w=270&v=1667766272)
Since October 2022, Xeno-canto, the largest website for sound recordings of birds, has been updated with grasshoppers. This opens the possibility for naturalists to share recordings of grasshoppers. It also facilitates the..
![Naturalis Biodiversity Center Naturalis onderzoeker Sylvia Mota de Oliveira bovenop de ATTO toren](https://cdn-img.newstory.nl/naturetoday/images/optimized/2c0a0653-9c75-483c-8ae3-e6bc6830f97b.png&h=170&w=270&v=1663856696)
In the heart of the Amazon Rainforest stands a three hundred meters high tower. There, Naturalis scientists collect airborne pollen and fungal spores to better understand how ecosystems evolve...
Why do some plants grow into large woody shrubs or colossal trees, while others remain small and never produce wood in their stems? It’s an evolutionary puzzle that already baffled Charles Darwin more than 160 year ago. Now,..