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A blog series with stories from the artists, designers & illustrators involved in the contemporary pop up gallery in the Aztecs exhibition.

To recognise the amazing achievements of our Streamwatch volunteers we ran two end of year events.

The Peacock and healing in Hindu and Buddhist tradition.

Long before mindfulness, compassion and lack of desires became popular.

If you had to choose to save just one critically endangered species, which would it be and why?

Axes made of glass were used to chop wood over 3000 years ago in Papua New Guinea.

Renewing an old relationship.

Historical relics and a mythology of war.

Silverfish have survived the challenges of a drying climate and are well represented but poorly known in Australia.

Iconic Australasian traditions in the mountains of Luzon in the Philippines.

Unique in the frog world, a newly described frog from Indonesia lays tadpoles instead of eggs.

This amazing video of fish in a drain blew me out of the water.

During September four staff set out on the RV Braveheart from New Zealand for the Austral and Gambier Islands of southern French Polynesia.

The culmination of 16 months of hard work by marine worm researchers just arrived on a pallet at the Australian Museum.

A new species of rock-wallaby hops into view in Australia's Top End.