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The story of the author of the oldest book in the Australian Museum Research Library.

After being on display for two decades at the AM, the Chapman Collection is about to embark on a journey to regional NSW. The Collection is home to hundreds of perfectly formed and beautiful crystals; delightful displays of light, colour and chemical diversity.

The priceless collection will be protected in perpetuity in the recorded memory of humankind.

Monitoring the invasive upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea) in Lake Macquarie.

We are now closer to investigating this trade thanks to the first steps in developing a forensic DNA toolbox to determine the source country of short beaked echidnas.

Why do birds fly south? Well actually, it turns out they don’t much - in the case of the Common Myna . . .

Surveying frog species on the New England Tablelands to help understand how they are faring.

Grey-headed Flying-foxes feast on seasonally abundant cicadas.

One winner was chosen from almost 7,000 entries!

A fabulous road trip down the Hume.

A trip to Russia on a quest for a type of worm that is reported to be widely distributed.

Four scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute joined a team of researchers from around Australasia on an expedition to explore the deep-sea marine life inhabiting seamounts south of Tasmania.

We used a novel method, integrating large datasets, to identify the ‘urbanness’ of Australian birds

Bruce Pascoe’s ground-breaking research completely reconsiders the notion of pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians as hunter-gatherers.

Surveying for the Peppered Tree Frog, we rediscovered the Endangered Booroolong Frog on the Northern Tablelands of NSW.