https://www.nmnhs.com/ Latest news provided by National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciencesen-gbCopyright 2026, National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciencescontact@nmnhs.com (Stanislav Abadjiev)Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:40:00 GMTTue, 21 Jul 2026 18:40:00 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/https://www.nmnhs.com/images/nmnhs_l_news.jpghttps://www.nmnhs.com/ On 20 July 2026 the renowned Slovak botanist Prof. Karol Marhold, a senior researcher at the Center for Plant Sciences and Biodiversity at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and currently as well a full professor of botany at Charles University in Prague visited the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia...https://www.nmnhs.com/26072101-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26072101-news_en.htmlTue, 21 Jul 2026 18:40:00 GMTOn July 10, 2026, Dr Greg Graffin visited the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences at the invitation of Assoc. Prof. Tihomir Stefanov, Deputy Director of the museum. Dr Graffin holds a PhD in Zoology from Cornell University and is a professor of natural sciences at the University of California and Cornell University. His scientific interests are in the field of evolutionary biology and paleontology. In addition to being a zoologist, Dr Graffin is the vocalist and co-founder of the band Bad Religion, which headlined the sixth edition of the Midalidare Rock In The Wine Valley International Rock Festival, which this year took place from July 10 to 12...https://www.nmnhs.com/26071501-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26071501-news_en.htmlWed, 15 Jul 2026 18:40:00 GMTBetween June 15 and 19, 2026, near the village of Vlahi, above the Kresna Gorge in Pirin, the largest field expedition in the field of lepidopterology took place, bringing together 57 experts from 17 European countries...https://www.nmnhs.com/26062401-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26062401-news_en.htmlFri, 26 Jun 2026 18:40:00 GMTOn 17 June 2026, the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NMNHS) took part in the national conference “Nature Restoration - responsibilities and opportunities through a common national plan”, held at the National Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences...https://www.nmnhs.com/26061802-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26061802-news_en.htmlThu, 18 Jun 2026 18:40:00 GMTOn 17 June 2026, the exhibition “Roots: The Living Connection to the Balkan”, organised by WWF Bulgaria within the work on the Forest Connect project and as part of the events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the WWF Bulgarian office of the nature conservation organisation, was officially opened in the lobby of National Museum of Natural History, Sofia...https://www.nmnhs.com/26061801-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26061801-news_en.htmlThu, 18 Jun 2026 18:30:00 GMTFor the first time, Bulgaria will host such a scientific expedition of this scale, bringing together over 50 entomologists, genomics experts, conservationists, and enthusiasts from Bulgaria, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium, France, Austria, Poland, Romania, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Estonia, Serbia, Finland, Spain and the United Kingdom...https://www.nmnhs.com/26061101-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26061101-news_en.htmlThu, 11 Jun 2026 18:30:00 GMTOn May 18, 2026, the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia celebrates the International Museum Day with the opening of the temporary exhibition Selected from the Collections of the National Museum of Natural, Sofia...https://www.nmnhs.com/26052001-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26052001-news_en.htmlWed, 20 May 2026 18:30:00 GMTBy tradition, the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia took part in the Sofia Science Festival, which took place from May 14 to 17, 2026. The museum set a thematic stand, which this year was dedicated to invasive alien species of insects...https://www.nmnhs.com/26051903-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26051903-news_en.htmlTue, 19 May 2026 18:50:00 GMTA new international study published in Avian Research presents the first comprehensive genetic analysis of the Dalmatian pelican across the species entire range - from Southeastern Europe to Central Asia...https://www.nmnhs.com/26051902-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26051902-news_en.htmlTue, 19 May 2026 18:40:00 GMTA new article by Prof. Dr Zlatozar Boev summarizes data from the first-of-its-kind study of the fossil and subfossil bone remains of bustards from the studied archaeological monuments (prehistoric, ancient and medieval settlements) in the countries of the Balkan Peninsula...https://www.nmnhs.com/26051901-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26051901-news_en.htmlTue, 19 May 2026 18:30:00 GMTOn March 4, 2026, the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia (NMNHS) gave a press conference in the BTA National Press Club in Sofia to present the article by Nikolai Spassov (NMNHS), Dionisios Youlatos (the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Madelaine Böhme (the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany), Ralitsa Bogdanova (NMNHS), Latinka Hristova (NMNHS), David R. Begun (the University of Toronto, Canada): An early form of terrestrial hominine bipedalism in the late Miocene of Bulgaria, published in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments...https://www.nmnhs.com/26031601-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26031601-news_en.htmlMon, 16 Mar 2026 18:30:00 GMTOn 25th February 2026, from 9:30 to 13:00, the first national meeting of the Bulgarian Community-Driven Biodiversity Knowledge Hub was held in the Europe hall of the Ministry of Environment and Water...https://www.nmnhs.com/26022701-news_en.html https://www.nmnhs.com/26022701-news_en.htmlFri, 27 Feb 2026 18:30:00 GMT