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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.

Environmental martyrs put their bodies and lives on the line. Some activists remain anonymous, while others gain posthumous fame and power, their deaths becoming a rallying call for others to join the cause.

Can DNA from the bellies of parasites lead us to rare frogs? We’ve been in the field to find out.

The Australian Museum joins a Bush Blitz team to discover the biodiversity of the ACT.

Do you love seafood? You're going to want to read this.

If a kingfisher is caught in a net, does it reside in the forest?

How do artists and designers draw inspiration from our collections? Fashion designer Donna Sgro tells us about her visits to the Rare Books and Entomology collections to research butterfly specimens for her latest work.

Globally, 100,000 marine mammals die every year as a result of plastic pollution.