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The cloud forests at the top of Malaita Island are still, mossy and the perfect place to discover new species of mammals.

No flies on him, as Australian Museum scientist Dan Bickel teaches a fly course to Asian students.

Looking at koala DNA from across the country gives us insights into their past, to help conserve them for the future.

Without museums, we wouldn't have discovered a cute, furry critter called the Olinguito and so much more.

Some of the worlds most destructive crop pests have been tagged and bagged at the Australian Museum.

After months of planning, it's now time to begin the search for Malaita's unknown mammals in the mountains of East Kwaio.

Could some aspects of the urban environment actually benefit plants and animals?

Honiara is gateway to almost 1,000 islands and a melting pot of people from across the Solomon Archipelago.

Specialised tools made of obsidian were used for tattooing c.3000 years ago by early Pacific societies.

This years award goes to Professor Frank Talbot AM.

Hitchhiking on turtles and ship hulls, some species of Podocerus know how to travel while others have gone unsampled for 150 years.

Celebrating half a century of polychaete research at the Australian Museum.

Could the odour emitted from a sample of a rhinoceros horn be enough to identify the species that it came from?

What brings a tropical jellyfish to the temperate waters off New South Wales?

The newly described Tiger Sandgoby, Nesogobius tigrinus might be small but it is out on the prowl for a mate.