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The World Science Festival is an annual weeklong celebration and exploration of science, with events held in Brisbane and New York.

From goannas and sparrows to quolls and kangaroos, citizen scientists play a key role in identifying animals from camera trap footage.

Introducing a Very Important Phasmid, now rehoused at Melbourne Zoo thanks to the efforts on an AM led expedition to Balls Pyramid.

Six-year-old Julian Perros has raised $620 to help fight the devastating impacts of the Crown of Thorns Starfish on the Great Barrier Reef.

Termites can be hard to identify, both in your floorboards and in the lab. But finding two new species of them might not be all bad news!

Throughout the 1860s the Australian Museum was led by its formidable, but ill-fated German born curator — Gerard Krefft.

Show and Tell: Paintings in ceremonial cycle.

With a handsome new sandstone building on William Street next to Hyde Park, the Australian Museum was the place to be seen in 1850s Sydney.

A live panel discussion with former Eureka Prize winners, hosted by Robyn Williams.

Australian Museum Curator William Sheridan Wall battled illness, poverty, poor equipment, dying animals, even bushrangers. 

Dark Emu author Bruce Pascoe deconstructs over-simplified portrayals of Indigenous life and the discoveries of this country's first people.

The science of the Great Australian Bight (GAB) is poorly known but the CSIRO GAB Deepwater Marine Program is hoping to change that.

Renae Sayers, of Curtin University, WA (pictured centre) talks about her explosive Eureka Prizes experience.

What are the symptoms and treatments for spider bites? Is our fear of spiders evolutionary or cultural? Can Arachnophobia be cured?

Once 'collector and preserver of specimens', the Museum's early taxidermist decided to branch out.