Atlantic oceanic islands host a unique fauna of endemic lizards, at least some of which closely interact with local native and alien plants. Knowledge of these interactions is necessary for effective protection of the island’s biodiversity. Interactions between the endemic Cape Verdean skink…

Physician and lawyer John Francis Löw of Erlsfeld (1648–1725) is one of the most important Czech Baroque personalities. Among other things, he was personal physician to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705), four-times rector of Charles University and eight-times dean of the Faculty of Medicine.…

Morphological and molecular data show that Iberian Savi’s Warblers are different from their conspecifics inhabiting the rest of the species’ range. The Iberian form is described here as a new subspecies, Locustella luscinioides iberica Mlíkovský, ssp. n.

Here, a total of 48 species of Aculeata (Hymenoptera) are reported, of which 14 are new for the Czech Republic: Chrysis interjecta Buysson, 1895, Holopyga minuma Linsenmaier, 1959, Stenodynerus clypeopictus (Kostylev, 1940), Liris niger (Fabricius, 1775), Andrena dorsalis Brullé, 1832, Nomada…

Jaroslav Šulc (21 October 1903 – 20 May 1943) was a promising young Czech palaeontologist. While still at school, he visited the palaeontological collections of the National Museum, where he donated many fossils and helped sort and identify fossil collections free of charge. He worked with leading…

The separate meteorite collection of the National Museum in Prague was established around 1900, until then (since 1824) meteorites were part of the mineralogical collection. In 1904, the collection included 181 falls and finds (a total of 218 individual pieces). By the end of 2024, the collection…

The present catalogue lists data from a total of 11 centipede, one symphylan and 17 isopod specimens from nine centipede, one symphylan and six isopod species of the collection by the Czech scientist Bohumil Němec (1873–1966), housed in the National Museum of the Czech Republic. The material was…

Metalampra caucasica Lvovsky, 1995 was recorded in Europe for the first time. Three specimens of both sexes were collected in southern Moravia (Czechia) in 2024 and 2025. The adults and genitalia of both sexes are illustrated.

A complete revised and annotated catalogue of giraffes (Giraffidae) housed in the collection of the National Museum in Prague is presented. The collection consists of at least 30 specimens, belonging to 3–4 species: okapi (Okapia johnstoni) – two specimens, northern giraffe (Girafa camelopardalis…

A new genus, Regentus gen nov., is established here based on species originally described as Spirellea trebecensis, hence the new combination Regentus trebecensis (Knobloch et Mai,1986) comb. nov. The material was collected and prepared by E. Knobloch from the Klikov Formation, from fluvial…