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Current NEWS from the LIB cosmos
From newly discovered animal species to treasures of historical collections, from environmental changes to nature conservation in the Anthropocene, from the opening of a special exhibition to a panel discussion: you will find all the latest information here. We also offer current press releases for download in the press area.
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Speed Dating with Science – The LIB Participates in “Book a Scientist”
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Photo Exhibition “Glanzlichter 2024” at the Museum Koenig Bonn
The 88 award-winning images from Germany’s largest international photo competition will be on display from October 3, 2024, to January 12, 2025.
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New theses on the Anthropocene
What value does the past have for the Anthropocene as an epochal caesura in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss? Experts will explore this question together at this year’s annual conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Value of the Past’ at Museum Koenig Bonn.
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Our Treasure of the Month: The Larva of the Antlion
Before it spends just a few days in its adult form flying around to mate, it lives about two years in its larval stage – commonly known as the Antlion. What makes this treasure so valuable to our researchers is the unique structure of its jaws, which they have closely examined in a recent study.
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Decoding the world’s largest animal genome
Thirty times the size of the human genome: An international team of researchers led by Konstanz evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer and Würzburg biochemist Manfred Schartl, including researchers from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), has sequenced the largest genome of all animals, the lungfish genome.
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Bronze of the “Federal Giraffe” on the ship MS Wissenschaft
From August 21 – 23, the ship “MS Wissenschaft” will dock on the banks of the Rhine in Bonn. Discover what two giraffes have to do with German democracy and what freedom means in different contexts – free of charge on board of “MS Wissenschaft”!