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Read the latest news stories from the Australian Museum.
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A curious case of the birds and the trees
Could some aspects of the urban environment actually benefit plants and animals?
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Welkam to Honiara
Honiara is gateway to almost 1,000 islands and a melting pot of people from across the Solomon Archipelago.
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AMplify: Episode 14, Paul Flemons
The AM's Digital Collections and Citizen Science manager speaks about the world-leading digitisation project, DigiVol.
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Secrets of early Pacific tattooing tools
Specialised tools made of obsidian were used for tattooing c.3000 years ago by early Pacific societies.
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Big History at the Australian Museum
Last week sixty Year 4 students from Putney Public School came along to the Australian Museum to be part of the Big History Project.
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AMplify: Episode 13, Trailblazers Talks live – Tim Flannery
An evening with celebrated explorer, scientist, communicator and former Australian of the Year.
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Travel the world on the back of a turtle
Hitchhiking on turtles and ship hulls, some species of Podocerus know how to travel while others have gone unsampled for 150 years.
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Our Global Neighbours: In Praise of Pottery
Are pieces of broken clay pots good for anything?
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International Polychaete Day
Celebrating half a century of polychaete research at the Australian Museum.
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The nose knows
Could the odour emitted from a sample of a rhinoceros horn be enough to identify the species that it came from?
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AMplify: Episode 12, Mark McGrouther
To the Collection Manager of the fourth largest type collection of fishes in the world, Sydney Harbour is a marine jewel.
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Many hands make light work
Kate Brandis, along with ANSTO and UNSW, are protecting our wetlands, by X-raying one feather at a time.
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AMplify: Episode 11, Dr Richard Major (part two)
Our podcast this week features the AM's ornithologist discussing citizen science projects Hollows as Homes and Wingtags.
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Flipside of the upside-down jellyfish
What brings a tropical jellyfish to the temperate waters off New South Wales?
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