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Sandy beaches are a great ecological unknown. Who knew?

How small brown frogs are helping us understand the drivers of biodiversity in Asia.

In the 1940s, naturalist Mel Ward created the Gallery of Natural History and Native Art in the Blue Mountains, exhibiting some 25,000 crabs.

In 1874, Museum Curator Gerard Krefft espoused Darwin's theory of evolution. The Board of Trustees were less than impressed.

Are Australia's sheep eating threatened plants? Turns out they've been "dropping" hints...

Work experience at the museum is one of the best things any aspiring scientist could do.

As oceans become more acid, senses larval fishes need to navigate will become dysfunctional.

Cosmopolitan species are reported to occur globally in most habitats from the intertidal to abyssal depths, but can the records be trusted?

In the early 1800s, Sydney was the kind of town where you might win and lose your fortune in a single day.

Step inside the Westpac Long Gallery - home of 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum.

You probably know how to say "hello" in French – but do you know the word in Sydney language?

There's no such thing as a bad crustacean isopod, not even those parasitic sea lice!

How DigiVol is encouraging citizen scientists to participate in digitising natural history collections.

Native Legends is considered the earliest published piece of writing by an Aboriginal author.

A new IUCN report reveals that nearly every second freshwater species on some of the islands off East Africa are threatened with extinction.