Science news
May 2023The now extinct St Helena Giant Earwig was the largest earwig in the world. At the request of the St Helena National Trust, the St Helena Government and the St Helena Museum, the AfricaMuseum donated a specimen of this iconic insect to the Museum of St Helena, where it is now on display.
April 2023In the new book Bushmeat. Culture, Economy and Conservation in Central Africa, Theodore Trefon analyses the environmental, social and economic aspects of bushmeat consumption in the Congo basin.
March 2023In the new book The bird species from the type collection, ornithologist Michel Louette presents the bird species whose type specimens are kept at the AfricaMuseum. Illustrated with magnificent photos and original artwork, this book presents a rich and varied collection of birds, most of which have seldom been spotted.
February 2023An international team of researchers led by the University of Helsinki has revised the phylogeny of the Elapoidea, an important group of snakes. By doing so, they discovered a new family of snakes. The study was carried out in collaboration with researchers from the AfricaMuseum and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and was based on specimens from both museums.
December 2022Frank De Coninck offers us the captivating account of a Belgian ambassador posted to Kigali from October 1994 to August 1997 and to Kinshasa from August 1997 to November 2000.
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December 2022New research shows how more than 70 years of urban growth have disturbed the displacements of a large and now densely-inhabited landslide in the city of Bukavu, in eastern DR Congo.
November 2022Compilation of texts written by renowned experts about the history of the rotunda and its statues, as well as the semantic and artistic analysis of RE/STORE.
November 2022Those who study the reproductive behaviour of invertebrates, say small animals, fall from one surprise to another.
August 2022On 22 May 2021, the Nyiragongo volcano (DR Congo) erupted. Lava flows destroyed part of the city of Goma and thousands of people fled. In a study published in Nature, an international team of researchers shows that this eruption could not be predicted.