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Capacity building and the neighbours: teaching insect identification in Papua New Guinea.

Flies from Australia, New Guinea and New Caledonia show ancient Gondwanan connections.

A blog series about our Lizard Island Research Station's recovery from 2015's Cyclone Nathan.

The recovery begins.

There are countless reasons to enter for an Australian Museum Eureka Prize… what’s yours?

The second in a blog series about our Lizard Island Research Station's recovery from 2015’s Cyclone Nathan.

A blog series about our Lizard Island Research Station's recovery from 2015’s Cyclone Nathan.

Torres Strait artist Ken Thaiday talks about what his work and his totem, the hammerhead shark means to him.

With barbecue tongs blazing and hat askew, the Braveheart cook bags a beauty.

Achievements and connections of progressive military medic.

Conservation programs tend to overlook some of the most important and most diverse groups of animals – the invertebrates.

A small frog with bright orange eyes has just been discovered from the forested mountains of Vietnam

A pudgy little coffinfish that lives over a kilometre below the surface has just been named.

Mention "French Polynesia" and palm trees and cocktails come to mind; but, think again.

How the virtual prisoner of the Great War found new directions in anthropology.