Australian Museum
News Stories
Read the latest news stories from the Australian Museum.
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Animating ghost net art: Dauma and Garom
Can art animate children when children animate art? A new film from the Torres Strait shows it can.
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Found among offsite storage
A world record Lotoria armata — one of the rarest shells on earth.
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Diary of a Freedom Rider - What is the Freedom Ride?
Joining the 2015 commemorative Freedom Ride.
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Passing on the key – making freshwater mollusc identification easier in Australia
We're working on enabling everyone to identify the rich freshwater mollusc fauna of Australia.
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Become a Scientist for a day
Each 'Scientist For a Day' program has different themes, designed to show kids what it’s like to work in different areas of science.
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Why it matters that marine taxonomists are becoming an “endangered species”
Without taxonomists, we won't know what species we have and what species we're driving to extinction
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DigiVol: Supporting scientific research at the Australian Museum
DigiVol volunteers help to advance science by digitising collections in preparation for study by researchers.
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Young Scientists Explore Science and Culture
Our recent Scientist for a Day program kicked off 2015 with the exploration of science and culture.
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The past, present and future of Australia’s mammals
What makes Australian mammals so interesting?
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Finding needles in a haystack
Detecting tiny exotic flies just got easier thanks to DNA barcoding, and now we also know where they came from.
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Our Global Neighbours: Melanesia – a bird’s-eye view
A mosaic of hair-styles, colours, languages and blurry boundaries.
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All credit to Krefft: Gerard Krefft’s invisible new species of dunnart
150 years later, we set a naming record straight!
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