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Executive Director and CEO Kim McKay in conversation with Sheldon Teare, Natural Sciences Conservator at the Australian Museum.

Sisters Helena and Harriet Scott documented the butterflies and botany of NSW in exquisite detail, but their path was not without struggle.

Forensic scientists at the Australian Museum use our DNA library to help authorities crackdown on the illegal wildlife trade globally.

My week of work experience with the Australian Museum has taught me that there is more to the Museum than meets the eye!

Egyptian artefact or plaster-covered tin can? AM's Materials Conservation team uncovers an elaborate fake.

Discovering the little known story of the historic gem, the Former National School Building.

My search for a tiny frog that hasn't been seen for more than 40 years has commenced

Moving a giant whale skeleton is serious business at the AM. AM’s Natural Sciences Conservator Sheldon Teare fills us in on what it takes.

Our Global Neighbours is a blog series containing stories from and about cultures around the world.

The Cockatoo Wingtag project is shining a light on the extensive social networks and daily routines of 100 of Sydney's tagged birds.

Songbird fossils from Queensland reveal the diet of an ancient population of the carnivorous Ghost Bat.

AM CEO and Director Kim McKay AO in conversation with explorer, scientist and 2007 Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery.

Our team is again drawn toward Malaita’s cloud forests and we find an exciting sign of the giant rat we’re looking for.

Conserving the structures established by long-term evolutionary processes is critical for long-term biodiversity sustainability.

Surprising spiders from our Rare Books collection.