Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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‘Vis en blik’ is nog geen ‘vis in blik’. Een greep uit het leven in de Stützpunkt Flugplatz aan de Zwinmonding
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A Tale of Five Fishes: First direct evidence of trade in Galilean salted fish on the Carmel coast in the early Islamic period
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(Sub-) fossiele faunavondsten en een inventarisatie van mollusken van het strand bij Dishoek afkomstig van één suppletie
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A behavioural framework for the evolution of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals
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Een midden-Romeinse rurale site in de Sigma zone ‘Wijmeers 2’ (gemeente Wichelen, Oost-Vlaanderen)
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Somewhere I belong: phylogeny and morphological evolution in a species-rich lineage of ectoparasitic flatworms infecting cichlid fishes
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A tardigrade in Dominican amber
- Tardigrades are a diverse group of charismatic microscopic invertebrates that are best known for their ability to survive extreme conditions. Despite their long evolutionary history and global distribution in both aquatic and terrestrial environments, the tardigrade fossil record is exceedingly sparse. Molecular clocks estimate that tardigrades diverged from other panarthropod lineages before the Cambrian, but only two definitive crown-group representatives have been described to date, both from Cretaceous fossil deposits in North America. Here, we report a third fossil tardigrade from Miocene age Dominican amber. Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus gen. et sp. nov. is the first unambiguous fossil representative of the diverse superfamily Isohypsibioidea, as well as the first tardigrade fossil described from the Cenozoic. We propose that the patchy tardigrade fossil record can be explained by the preferential preservation of these microinvertebrates as amber inclusions, coupled with the scarcity of fossiliferous amber deposits before the Cretaceous.
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Skull ecomorphological variation of narwhals (Monodon monoceros, Linnaeus 1758) and belugas (Delphinapterus leucas, Pallas 1776) reveals phenotype of their hybrids
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Further notes on the genera Punctoterebra and Myurellopsis (Gastropoda: Terebridae) with the description of 15 new species
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A diverse Miocene toothed whale (Odontoceti) fauna from Calvert Cliffs, Atlantic Coastal Plain, U.S.A.
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Late Miocene baleen whales from the Peruvian desert
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Early dispersal for quadrupedal cetaceans: an amphibious whale from the middle Eocene of the southeastern Pacific
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Extension of the lanternfly genus Neoalcathous Wang & Huang, 1989 to Vietnam with a new species and new subfamily placement (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)
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Descrption of two new species of the genus Stilpon Loew (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Cambodia
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DIVERSE ARCHIVAL HIV-1 GENOMES FROM THE 1980’S IN DR CONGO
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Ecological signal in the size and shape of marine amniote teeth
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Multiple detections of Aedes albopictus in Belgium though Citizen Science
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SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) from Antwerp sewer system, Belgium
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Predicting the evolution of the Lassa virus endemic area and population at risk over the next decades
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Evolution and Diversity of Bat and Rodent Paramyxoviruses from North America
