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Michael Harvey
21 January 2010
The winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has been stripped of his prize, after a review of the award by the judging panel.
Catherine Cooper
09 February 2010
The Australian Museum’s recent exhibition Climate change: our future, your choice has received an award from Museums and Galleries NSW.
what's new
- Eye-stripe Triggerfish, Sufflamen chrysopterum (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Bilobed pectoral fin of a Blackspotted Gurnard Perch
- Blackspotted Gurnard Perch
- Blackspotted Gurnard Perch, Neosebastes nigropunctatus McCulloch, 1915
- Royal visitor examines Australian Museum collections
- Bone Detective - Stages 3 - Student Activities
- Fascinating Fossils Stage 5 - Student Activities
- Evolution, survival and extinction - Stage 6 - Student Activities
- Erecting Malangan Poles
- Scenes from Swarga (the afterlife): Balinese Painting E74161
what's popular
- Australian Museum Ornithology Collection
- Australian Museum Palaeontology Collection
- Palorchestes: A tale of misidentification
- Australian Museum Mineralogy Collection
- Frogs: Class Amphibia
- Mammals: Mammalia
- Moths, butterflies and skippers: Order Lepidoptera
- Spotted Wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
- Chitons - Class Polyplacophora
- Intertidal habitats
recent comments
“Thank you Ondine, what a great website!”
“
Hi Will, Thank you for your kind offer of an image of the species. I will add a factsheet...”
Common Toadfish, Tetractenos hamiltoni (Gray & Richardson, 1843)
“
Hi Will, Sure. As stated in my previous post re Spotted Wobbegong, just email the images...”
Estuary Catfish, Cnidoglanis macrocephalus (Valenciennes, 1840)




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