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#SaveTheDate: Research Colloquium: The wonder reptile Mirasaura and the Reptile Revolution of the Triassic
by Dr Stephan Spiekman
Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00
Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6
by Dr Stephan Spiekman
Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00
Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#SaveTheDate: Research Colloquium: The wonder reptile Mirasaura and the Reptile Revolution of the Triassic
by Dr Stephan Spiekman
Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00
Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6
by Dr Stephan Spiekman
Tuesday | 25.11.2025 | 16:00
Join the talk in person at the Museum am Löwentor or online: https://t1p.de/sq0m6
Infoabend zum Tapinoma-Projekt
Freitag, 21.11. um 19 Uhr im Foyer der Schwarzwaldhalle Appenweier (Oberkircher Str. 26)
mit Bernd Mettenleitner MdL, Dr. Manfred Verhaagh (Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe), Amelie Höcherl (Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart)
Eintritt frei.
Mehr Infos zum Projekt: t1p.de/h9l3h
Freitag, 21.11. um 19 Uhr im Foyer der Schwarzwaldhalle Appenweier (Oberkircher Str. 26)
mit Bernd Mettenleitner MdL, Dr. Manfred Verhaagh (Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe), Amelie Höcherl (Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart)
Eintritt frei.
Mehr Infos zum Projekt: t1p.de/h9l3h
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Infoabend zum Tapinoma-Projekt
Freitag, 21.11. um 19 Uhr im Foyer der Schwarzwaldhalle Appenweier (Oberkircher Str. 26)
mit Bernd Mettenleitner MdL, Dr. Manfred Verhaagh (Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe), Amelie Höcherl (Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart)
Eintritt frei.
Mehr Infos zum Projekt: t1p.de/h9l3h
Freitag, 21.11. um 19 Uhr im Foyer der Schwarzwaldhalle Appenweier (Oberkircher Str. 26)
mit Bernd Mettenleitner MdL, Dr. Manfred Verhaagh (Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe), Amelie Höcherl (Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart)
Eintritt frei.
Mehr Infos zum Projekt: t1p.de/h9l3h
#Job Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart sucht:
Abteilungsleitung (m/w/d) Gebäude, Sicherheit und Besuchendenservice.
Vollzeit, unbefristet, EG 13 TV-L
Bewerbungsfrist: 04.12.2025
➡ Infos: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/detailansicht/abteilungsleitung-m-w-d-gebaeude-sicherheit-und-besuchendenservice
Abteilungsleitung (m/w/d) Gebäude, Sicherheit und Besuchendenservice.
Vollzeit, unbefristet, EG 13 TV-L
Bewerbungsfrist: 04.12.2025
➡ Infos: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/detailansicht/abteilungsleitung-m-w-d-gebaeude-sicherheit-und-besuchendenservice
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#Job Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart sucht:
Abteilungsleitung (m/w/d) Gebäude, Sicherheit und Besuchendenservice.
Vollzeit, unbefristet, EG 13 TV-L
Bewerbungsfrist: 04.12.2025
➡ Infos: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/detailansicht/abteilungsleitung-m-w-d-gebaeude-sicherheit-und-besuchendenservice
Abteilungsleitung (m/w/d) Gebäude, Sicherheit und Besuchendenservice.
Vollzeit, unbefristet, EG 13 TV-L
Bewerbungsfrist: 04.12.2025
➡ Infos: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen/detailansicht/abteilungsleitung-m-w-d-gebaeude-sicherheit-und-besuchendenservice
#SaveTheDate:
Research Colloquium: Where science meets conservation – population genetics of the native freshwater mussel Unio crassus s. l.
by Dr. Ira Richling, November 11, 4 p.m.
Joyn via zoom: zoom.us/j/94510498226
Research Colloquium: Where science meets conservation – population genetics of the native freshwater mussel Unio crassus s. l.
by Dr. Ira Richling, November 11, 4 p.m.
Joyn via zoom: zoom.us/j/94510498226
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#SaveTheDate:
Research Colloquium: Where science meets conservation – population genetics of the native freshwater mussel Unio crassus s. l.
by Dr. Ira Richling, November 11, 4 p.m.
Joyn via zoom: zoom.us/j/94510498226
Research Colloquium: Where science meets conservation – population genetics of the native freshwater mussel Unio crassus s. l.
by Dr. Ira Richling, November 11, 4 p.m.
Joyn via zoom: zoom.us/j/94510498226
Tomorrow, October 28 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tomorrow, October 28 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Research Colloquium: The use of ancient DNA and museum collections to understand speciation and introgression in crows
with Chyi Yin Gwee, @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Join in person (Museum am Löwentor, #Stuttgart) or via zoom: t1p.de/d3y6j
Yesterday we joined the congress celebrating 5 years of Taxonomy Initiative Baden-Württemberg together with @kombiota.bsky.social at @unihohenheim.bsky.social. BW promotes taxonomy in a way that is unique in Germany – and is building a strong network of research, teaching, and knowledge transfer.
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Yesterday we joined the congress celebrating 5 years of Taxonomy Initiative Baden-Württemberg together with @kombiota.bsky.social at @unihohenheim.bsky.social. BW promotes taxonomy in a way that is unique in Germany – and is building a strong network of research, teaching, and knowledge transfer.
Research in action: from fieldwork to lab, fossil prep, CT scans, and 3D models showing how hypotheses become evidence.
#TriassicLife is on view until June 7, 2026. More information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/exhibitio...
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
#TriassicLife is on view until June 7, 2026. More information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/exhibitio...
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Research in action: from fieldwork to lab, fossil prep, CT scans, and 3D models showing how hypotheses become evidence.
#TriassicLife is on view until June 7, 2026. More information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/exhibitio...
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
#TriassicLife is on view until June 7, 2026. More information: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/exhibitio...
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
From the first plant return to diverse insects, amphibians, marine reptiles and early archosaurs, the exhibition maps ecosystem recovery and innovation. A highlight is Mirasaura grauvogeli from the Grauvogel collection, sharpening early reptile evolution and Triassic timelines.
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
From the first plant return to diverse insects, amphibians, marine reptiles and early archosaurs, the exhibition maps ecosystem recovery and innovation. A highlight is Mirasaura grauvogeli from the Grauvogel collection, sharpening early reptile evolution and Triassic timelines.
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
Yesterday we opened “Triassic Life — Dawn of the age of reptiles” at Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart. The show tracks life’s rebound after the end Permian mass extinction ~252 million years ago.
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Yesterday we opened “Triassic Life — Dawn of the age of reptiles” at Museum am Löwentor, Stuttgart. The show tracks life’s rebound after the end Permian mass extinction ~252 million years ago.
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
📷: Maximilian Schwarz
Tomorrow!
Research Colloquium: Miocene lake systems and the decline of the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum
via zoom: t1p.de/bemb0
October 14, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: Miocene lake systems and the decline of the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum
via zoom: t1p.de/bemb0
October 14, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
October 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Tomorrow!
Research Colloquium: Miocene lake systems and the decline of the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum
via zoom: t1p.de/bemb0
October 14, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Research Colloquium: Miocene lake systems and the decline of the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum
via zoom: t1p.de/bemb0
October 14, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
New find from the Jurassic Coast: a nearly complete skeleton of a new ichthyosaur, Xiphodracon goldencapensis (~3 m, Pliensbachian). Described by Dr @deanrlomax.bsky.social, Prof Dr Judy Massare, and Dr Erin Maxwell (Natural History Museum Stuttgart).
📷: @deanrlomax.bsky.social
📷: @deanrlomax.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New find from the Jurassic Coast: a nearly complete skeleton of a new ichthyosaur, Xiphodracon goldencapensis (~3 m, Pliensbachian). Described by Dr @deanrlomax.bsky.social, Prof Dr Judy Massare, and Dr Erin Maxwell (Natural History Museum Stuttgart).
📷: @deanrlomax.bsky.social
📷: @deanrlomax.bsky.social
This week at Museum am Löwentor we launched a model project for urban biodiversity: a 320 m² nature area with 5 mini-habitats, co-created with Wilhelma and local students. Thanks to Wilhelma, Bunte Wiese Stuttgart and the City's environmental education!
Read the full report: t1p.de/skoiw (in German)
Read the full report: t1p.de/skoiw (in German)
October 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
This week at Museum am Löwentor we launched a model project for urban biodiversity: a 320 m² nature area with 5 mini-habitats, co-created with Wilhelma and local students. Thanks to Wilhelma, Bunte Wiese Stuttgart and the City's environmental education!
Read the full report: t1p.de/skoiw (in German)
Read the full report: t1p.de/skoiw (in German)
The 61st International conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Präparationstechnik e.V. took place at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart from September 16 to 20.
Thanks to all the participants who made this workshop a successful and inspiring event!
📷: Peter Mildner
Thanks to all the participants who made this workshop a successful and inspiring event!
📷: Peter Mildner
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The 61st International conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Präparationstechnik e.V. took place at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart from September 16 to 20.
Thanks to all the participants who made this workshop a successful and inspiring event!
📷: Peter Mildner
Thanks to all the participants who made this workshop a successful and inspiring event!
📷: Peter Mildner
Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Technische*r Mitarbeiter*in in der Lepidopteren Sammlung (m/w/d)
Bewerbungsfrist: 02.11.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter https://t1p.de/9chrv
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
Bewerbungsfrist: 02.11.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter https://t1p.de/9chrv
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n Technische*r Mitarbeiter*in in der Lepidopteren Sammlung (m/w/d)
Bewerbungsfrist: 02.11.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter https://t1p.de/9chrv
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
Bewerbungsfrist: 02.11.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter https://t1p.de/9chrv
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
Gesucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt: Ausstellungskurator*in (m/w/d).
E 13 TV-L, zunächst befristet auf drei Jahre mit der Option auf eine dauerhafte Übernahme
Bewerbungsfrist: 19.10.2025
➡️ https://t1p.de/smj6o
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
E 13 TV-L, zunächst befristet auf drei Jahre mit der Option auf eine dauerhafte Übernahme
Bewerbungsfrist: 19.10.2025
➡️ https://t1p.de/smj6o
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
September 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Gesucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt: Ausstellungskurator*in (m/w/d).
E 13 TV-L, zunächst befristet auf drei Jahre mit der Option auf eine dauerhafte Übernahme
Bewerbungsfrist: 19.10.2025
➡️ https://t1p.de/smj6o
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
E 13 TV-L, zunächst befristet auf drei Jahre mit der Option auf eine dauerhafte Übernahme
Bewerbungsfrist: 19.10.2025
➡️ https://t1p.de/smj6o
#Job #Jobs #JobAd #Stellen #Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stellenangebot #Stuttgart
#ScienceNews: Out of the shadows and into the light! – Genetic fingerprinting reveals unexpected diversity among wasps
A new study reveals that there is still an astonishing, previously hidden insect world to discover in Baden-Württemberg.
➡️ t1p.de/d55gt
📷: @marinamoser.bsky.social
A new study reveals that there is still an astonishing, previously hidden insect world to discover in Baden-Württemberg.
➡️ t1p.de/d55gt
📷: @marinamoser.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#ScienceNews: Out of the shadows and into the light! – Genetic fingerprinting reveals unexpected diversity among wasps
A new study reveals that there is still an astonishing, previously hidden insect world to discover in Baden-Württemberg.
➡️ t1p.de/d55gt
📷: @marinamoser.bsky.social
A new study reveals that there is still an astonishing, previously hidden insect world to discover in Baden-Württemberg.
➡️ t1p.de/d55gt
📷: @marinamoser.bsky.social
...we actually like to dream about Temnodontosaurus...
September 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
...we actually like to dream about Temnodontosaurus...
A second fossil, also on display, represents a juvenile Stenopterygius of approximately 1.6 m in length that appears to have been consumed whole and then regurgitated (a so called bromalite).
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A second fossil, also on display, represents a juvenile Stenopterygius of approximately 1.6 m in length that appears to have been consumed whole and then regurgitated (a so called bromalite).
A specimen in the permanent exhibition of Museum am Löwentor (SMNS) preserves the remains of cephalopod arm hooklets and at least four neonatal Stenopterygius specimens in the stomach region, which are interpreted as prey.
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A specimen in the permanent exhibition of Museum am Löwentor (SMNS) preserves the remains of cephalopod arm hooklets and at least four neonatal Stenopterygius specimens in the stomach region, which are interpreted as prey.
#ScienceNews
A voracious Early Jurassic predator: In a recent study a team of researchers led by Dr Erin Maxwell reinvestigated the diet of Temnodontosaurus based on fossils from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Baden-Württemberg.
www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/...
A voracious Early Jurassic predator: In a recent study a team of researchers led by Dr Erin Maxwell reinvestigated the diet of Temnodontosaurus based on fossils from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Baden-Württemberg.
www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/...
September 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#ScienceNews
A voracious Early Jurassic predator: In a recent study a team of researchers led by Dr Erin Maxwell reinvestigated the diet of Temnodontosaurus based on fossils from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Baden-Württemberg.
www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/...
A voracious Early Jurassic predator: In a recent study a team of researchers led by Dr Erin Maxwell reinvestigated the diet of Temnodontosaurus based on fossils from the Posidonienschiefer Formation of Baden-Württemberg.
www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/en/research/...
@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity!
Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!
Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!
August 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
@fundive-fungi.bsky.social is a Europe-wide project to better understand & protect fungi. Find, photograph & document fungi and join us to help reveal Europe's fungal diversity!
Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!
Follow @fundive-fungi.bsky.social and check https://fun-dive.eu/en/get-involved/ for more information!
The new species, named Plesionectes longicollum (“long-necked near-swimmer”), is a previously unknown species of plesiosauroid. The specimen is an almost complete skeleton that even preserves remnants of fossilised soft tissue.
August 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The new species, named Plesionectes longicollum (“long-necked near-swimmer”), is a previously unknown species of plesiosauroid. The specimen is an almost complete skeleton that even preserves remnants of fossilised soft tissue.
While examining fossils in our collection, paleontologists Sven Sachs (@dinosven.bsky.social) and Dr. Daniel Madzia (@danielmadzia.bsky.social) social have discovered a new species of plesiosaur.
August 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
While examining fossils in our collection, paleontologists Sven Sachs (@dinosven.bsky.social) and Dr. Daniel Madzia (@danielmadzia.bsky.social) social have discovered a new species of plesiosaur.
Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart vergibt zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt:
Zwei Plätze im #Bundesfreiwilligendienst für 2025/2026 in der Abteilung Kommunikation
Bewerbungsfrist: 13.08.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen
#Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stuttgart #BFD
Zwei Plätze im #Bundesfreiwilligendienst für 2025/2026 in der Abteilung Kommunikation
Bewerbungsfrist: 13.08.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen
#Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stuttgart #BFD
August 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Das Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart vergibt zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt:
Zwei Plätze im #Bundesfreiwilligendienst für 2025/2026 in der Abteilung Kommunikation
Bewerbungsfrist: 13.08.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen
#Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stuttgart #BFD
Zwei Plätze im #Bundesfreiwilligendienst für 2025/2026 in der Abteilung Kommunikation
Bewerbungsfrist: 13.08.2025
Alle weiteren Infos unter www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stellen
#Kulturjobs #Museumsjobs #Stuttgart #BFD
#Press
A ‘wonder’ fossil changes our understanding of reptile evolution
An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal @nature.com showing that early reptiles had unique structures growing from its skin that formed an alternative to feathers.
t1p.de/qd7s3
A ‘wonder’ fossil changes our understanding of reptile evolution
An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal @nature.com showing that early reptiles had unique structures growing from its skin that formed an alternative to feathers.
t1p.de/qd7s3
July 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#Press
A ‘wonder’ fossil changes our understanding of reptile evolution
An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal @nature.com showing that early reptiles had unique structures growing from its skin that formed an alternative to feathers.
t1p.de/qd7s3
A ‘wonder’ fossil changes our understanding of reptile evolution
An international team of researchers has published a breakthrough study in the journal @nature.com showing that early reptiles had unique structures growing from its skin that formed an alternative to feathers.
t1p.de/qd7s3