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Posting someone else's work might seem like a slack way to produce a blog page, but I hope you'll forgive me. This is just stunning!

In a time before the Internet and text messages, the arrival of the first British mail steam ship was cause for celebration in the Colony.

Unearthing secrets of Chimu culture at Cayalti Estate in Peru.

A special issue of the Technical Reports of the Australian Museum reveals the current state of knowledge on the Koala retrovirus.

Finding out how frogs move around might be key to conserving unique dryland frog communities.

The best time to gather information about a species is before they decline.

A very famous (replica) skeleton of an extinct species of early humans is now on display. Here's the story of its construction.

A chance to say thank you to all the Museum's wonderful volunteers.

A larval flounder with a long projection on its snout made waves in the fish section.

We're very excited that the Museum’s 5th mobile application has been released.

Why was Charles Hedley ordered to stop work on his paper?

Megan is the first virtual volunteer on the DigiVol portal (formerly Biodiversity Volunteer Portal, BVP) to transcribe 16,000 records.

A host of spore-producing parasites may be waiting in the wings for a chance to attack amphibians.

One of the Australian Museum’s earliest Curators was not only an industrious man of science but one ahead of his time.

The entries are in, now over to our judges for the hard part.