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After a successful week of sampling blennies on Moorea, we gathered our gear and boarded the ferry bound for the island of Tahiti.

Satellite transmitters will reveal the inner-city eateries and vacation escapes of Ibis birds.

A beautiful and expertly-flaked stone tool rescued from a house site opens up a world of meaning for a distant, poorly-known period.

Discovered in the cold, wet forest near the top of Mount Fansipan this little frog may already be in trouble.

Honeybees were introduced shortly after European settlement and now appear to be the only effective pollinators of a native plant species.

Our journey had a rocky start involving 5 airports, 7 busses and a ferry, so we arrived exhausted but relieved on the island of Moorea.

Among the marine invertebrate specimens in our collection are a number of Irukandji jellyfishes, a group of highly venomous sea creatures.

An introduction to the Balinese Calendar.

Help make the world of scientific illustration accessible to a wider audience.

Well, I'm impressed!

Well worth the disruption

Risky business.

A row of huge timber boxes from Canada, sitting at the back of our cavernous Gallery One, was the first sign that the beginning was nigh.

A new paper is calling for more attention to be paid to poorly-known micro-organisms capable of killing off amphibians and fishes.

The Museum has purchased Gur Atkamlu (Sea Blanket), a work by Indigenous artists from Darnley Island Arts Centre (Erub Erwer Meta).