20171 December 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month December: Shimmering leaf horn beetlePhoto: UHH/CeNak, DalsgaardOur treasure of the month December is: no, not a collection of blue-purple shimmering Christmas baubles, but a number of particularly beautiful...1 November 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month November: The skull of a Sumatran rhinoceros as knowledge archivePhoto: Rendering, Volume GraphicsThe exhibition "Vanishing Legacies: The World as Forest" combines contemporary art with historical documents and selected collection objects from...1 October 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month October: Common toad in CT scanPhoto: UHH/CeNak, Karolin EngelkesOctober's Treasure of the Month is a common toad (Bufo bufo) found in Denmark in 1968. These brown-grey, warty animals are widespread in Europe...1 September 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month September: A 175 million year old fish headPhoto: UHH, RRZ/MCC, MentzThe treasure of the month September is a fossilized fish (genus Lepidotes) from the LIB Paleontological Collection. It can be seen in the Museum of...1 July 2017|ForschungThe treasure of the month July: A deer skull - gnawed by a squirrelPhoto: UHH/CeNak, KaiserA Hamburg citizen found this deer skull in October 2016 in a forest strip near Bergedorf and passed it on to the mammal department of the LIB. The...1 June 2017|ForschungThe treasure of the month of June: A Caribbean crabPhoto: UHH/CeNak, Simon BoberExternally, it resembles a swimming centipede; however, in terms of evolutionary biology, it is the closest relative of all insects. The treasure of...1 May 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month May: Black house snake is treasure of the month MayPhoto: Foto: UHH/CeNak, Jakob HallermannThe treasure of the month of May is a black house snake, the type specimen of Boaedon nigrum. A doctor working in West Africa caught the animal more...1 April 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month April: Unique web spiderPhoto: Our treasure of the month April is the "Katissa kurusiki" - this is the name of a new species from the family of the delicate spiders (Anyphaenidae)...1 March 2017|ForschungTreasure of the Month March: Extinct Beauty in LIB CollectionPhoto: It is a Caribbean beauty, but is considered extinct since the beginning of the 19th century. The beautiful large butterfly (6.4 - 7.6 cm) Uranius...1 February 2017|ForschungTreasure of the month February: gold of the special formPhoto: Gold in the form of wires occurs very rarely in nature. Solid gold is mostly found enclosed in other minerals as mountain gold or in sediments in the...Show all news