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The Wadi el-Sheikh quarry complex extends for several kilometres - millions of flint blades and knives were produced in antiquity.

Healthy salamander populations on both sides of the planet may depend on controlling the international sale of Asian newts as pets

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

Rare Night Parrot feathers have been obtained by the Australian Museum through unsolved circumstances.

Suburban landscapes provide more consistent floral nectar than native bushland and support a greater abundance of large nectar-feeding birds

Learning as discovery and adventure.

An extinct volcano in NSW is home to an endangered community of land snails, including a bright scarlet slug.

A week of learning and discovery.

The Australian Museum joined Sydney's largest BioBlitz with a display at Basecamp and running surveys.

Steve and Sally examining Anna's nightlighting catch.

2014 has been all about beacons...

Chalmers by name and charming by nature

From an ancient pre-Columbian graveyard to the Captain Cook Collection.

The immense task of digitising our collections raises many challenges for our digitisation and transcription team, the DigiVols.

Textiles of Southeast Asia are amongst the richest in diversity and design in the world.