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- Jun 2013
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May 2013
- This Week in Fish: A Fishy Fortnight
- Ghost net art: Not just net and rope...
- Ghost net art: Work begins at Erub Erwer Meta
- Ghost net art: Arrival on Darnley Island
- Message in a bottle
- Ghost net art: Great interest in Frank Hurley's photos of Darnley Island
- Controlling Crown of Thorns
- This Week in Fish: Mako magic
- Cultural Collections at the Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival
- This week in fish: A week of beards
- Balinese Expressions: Paintings in the Temple
- 7 May: Busting the bank (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- This week in fish: Martin, Mike and a bright goatfish
- 3 May: Answers for class (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 2 May: Breaking up is hard to do (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 28 April: Better living through Chemistry (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 27 April: Green flashes (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 26 April: Sea chickens (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
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Apr 2013
- A Close Encounter of the Climate Kind: Mick Aschroft shares his experiences at the frontier
- 25 April: Deeper & deeper (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 24 April: Hump day happiness (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 23 April: Feeding habits of the Antarctic Scientist (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 22 April: Abandon hope! (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 21 April: A glassy pinnacle (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 20 April: Memorable Experiences (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 19 April: Treasure hunting (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 18 April: What are you saying? (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 16 April: Epic battles at sea (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- Help us understand Sydney's Cockatoos
- This week in fish: Inside a drummer
- Koala genome breakthrough
- 15 April: South Georgia on my mind (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- Denise Wallace’s Visit
- Making connections in Antarctica
- Ghost Net art: Erub Erwer Meta visit
- 12 April: Great Expectations (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 11 April: Time to transit (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 10 April: The Straits of Magellan (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- 9 April: Fishing at last! (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- This Week in Fish: Drowning in Sharks
- Boat People: Wouraddy and maritime Tasmanians
- Our Global Neighbours: Opium Anyone?
- Marine vandal has a gutful!
- This week in Fish: Bold Movies
- Tanks for the Memories: A New Home for our Fish Collection
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Mar 2013
- This week in Fish: Monster Fish Move
- The Opera House Barkcloth
- 8 April: Meet the team (Scotia Arc Expedition 2013)
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project: A New Reference Group
- Sydney Harbour - 3000 species and counting!
- Natural science conservator, Silvia Da Rocha, awarded ICON internship
- Collections on the Move
- This week in Fish: Red Rag to a Fish
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project: 'Bring da family to Uni'
- Hot bodies protect frogs from disease
- Our Global Neighbours: Nobu Shirase
- Disturbing the peace
- Ouch! An isopod grabbed my tongue
- This week in Fish: Weird fish award
- This week in Fish: Rare seahorse retrieved
- Our Global Neighbours: The Crocodile Mask E17339
- This week in Fish: Citing the Site
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Feb 2013
- Frog fungus where you least expect it
- This week in Fish: Sarah studies Sharks
- A Remarkable Contributor
- Ornithological Moments
- This week in Fish: Death defying Cleanerfish
- Pacific Youth Reconnection Project: Waitangi Festival Celebrations
- Cultural Collections celebrate Waitangi Day
- Are You Squidding?
- Boat People: From Sri Lanka to Australia
- Our Global Neighbours: ‘Waste Not’ - exhibition by Song Dong
- This week in Fish: Flying Stonefish!
- Waitangi Day 2013
- Our Global Neighbours: Mali
- This week in Fish: Barnyard of Fishes
- Jan 2013
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Dec 2012
- Ghost Net art: Sea Blanket
- The Macquarie Street Lion
- The strangest tadpole?
- Balinese Expressions # 3: Leo Haks Visit
- This week in Fish: Farewell fish fans
- Balinese Expressions #2: “Balinese Art” Book Launch
- Interview with an Endangered Species (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- The Centenary of the 'Adelie Land' Meteorite
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Nov 2012
- This week in Fish: Superstar Sunfish
- What exactly is museum science and how does it help? (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Superstar sunfish seeks solace
- This week in Fish: Fish out of water
- Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics has launched
- Museum Scientist wins 2012 Whitley Book Award
- This week in Fish: Gotta luv a BRUV!
- This week in Fish: Marlin and Mouth Mackerel
- This week in Fish: Far-flung fishes
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Oct 2012
- This week in Fish: Welcome to the 'fish doctor'
- This week in Fish: Bone from Brewarrina
- Kermadec memories
- Kiwis track Great White Sharks
- This week in Fish: Banded (not sliced) Cucumberfish
- DigiVol:Let's celebrate......100,000 images taken
- This week in Fish: 'Habitat road trip'
- Our Global Neighbours # 3: Frontiers of Archaeology
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Sep 2012
- This week in Fish: We're back!
- Balinese Expressions # 1: Reunion with the Forge Collection
- A Survey of our Surveyors (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 24 September: And That's A Wrap (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 23 September: It Started With A Catch (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 22 September: Return Of The Pooter (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 21 September: Collector Cam (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 20 September: A Tour To Atauro (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 19 September: The Rote Boat (Timor-Leste-Expedition)
- 18 September: The Art Of Improvisation (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 17 September: Two Out Of Three Aint Bad (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 16 September: A Day in Darwin (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- 15 September: Why Is An Arts Grad Going On A Scientific Survey? (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- This week in Fish: Monty the non-python
- This fortnight in Fish
- DigiVol: Digitising molluscs
- The Act Of Butterfly Collecting (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Death's-Head Hawkmoth (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Collecting In The Clouds (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- On And Off The Roads (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Exploring The Almost Unknown: Land Snail Fauna (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- The People We Met (Timor-Leste Expedition)
- Our First Morning (Timor-Leste Expedition)
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Aug 2012
- This week in Fish: Ornate Eagle Ray
- A Grasshopper Leaps Out From the Pages of History
- This week in Fish: Hard-Drinking Atomgoby
- Boat People # 2
- Dissecting Microscope donated to Marine Invertebrates
- This week in Fish: Packing and interview
- This week in Fish: Keita Koeda visiting
- Reflections on Madagascar
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Jul 2012
- This week in fish: Dawkinsia and new Lates
- Barramundi finds two new siblings
- From the Collection: Bigeye Sixgill shark
- Timor-Leste Expedition 2012
- Niue's Only Endemic Butterfly Discovered by Museum Researcher
- New genus of fish named after Richard Dawkins
- This week in Fish: Bruce Robison and spawning Luderick
- This week in fish: Lots of movies
- Dion in the Solomons: Rennell and Bellona and the Atoll of Fakaofo, Tokelau
- Dion in the Solomons: An opening to remember
- Dion in the Solomons: The nine provinces and a special evening
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Jun 2012
- Dion in the Solomons: Celebrity status and a moment of reflection at Turtle beach
- Dion in the Solomons: Diesel, dust, skipjack and betel nuts
- Tentative Chronology of Indigenous Canoes of Eastern Australia
- Sharks feeding on a whale carcase
- This week in Fish: YouTube movie links
- Our Global Neighbours # 2
- Our Global Neighbours # 1
- This week in Fish: Variable Snake Blenny
- This week in Fish: New website online
- Transit of Venus: Day 4 - Transit Day
- Transit of Venus tour: Day 3
- Transit of Venus tour: Day 2
- Transit of Venus tour: Day 1
- Boat People # 1
- May 2012
- Apr 2012
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Mar 2012
- Large Muraenid Leptocephali
- This week in Fish: Incredible eel movie
- This week in Fish: Bridled Clingfish
- Mating Coffin Rays
- Frogs in nests?
- DigiVol: Thoughts from Vanessa Finney
- This week in Fish: Fish eyes through the lens
- This week in Fish: Sawfish saw in action
- Sawfish saw in action
- Larval basslet movies
- This week in Fish: Fan-finned mullet
- Corals of Kosrae - The Island of the Sleeping Lady
- Corals of Kosrae - The Lelu Ruins
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Feb 2012
- Larval whalefish at Apo Island
- 'Water squirting' Common Lionfish
- This week in fish: Warty Anglerfish
- DigiVol: Volunteers have their say
- Grey Carpetshark senses
- This week in Fish: Incredible Barreleye and a huge shark tooth
- Incredible Barreleye video
- This week in Fish: Shark beaching and Cobbler Wobbegong
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Decline in Natural Resources
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Handicrafts
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: Ngatu
- The Power of X-rays
- Southern Garfish, Hyporhamphus melanochir
- This week in Fish: First specimen of Denise's Pygmy Seahorse
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Jan 2012
- Lizard Fish - Shark Beaching
- Lizard Fish - The best part of every day
- This week in Fish: More from the field
- Lizard Fish - Baitfish and a large shark
- This week in Fish: Pipefish close up
- Lizard Fish - In the beginning
- This week in Fish: Shorthead Seahorse and Saddled Snake Eel
- This week in Fish: Octopus mimic
- Eagle rays in the shallows
- Saddled Snake Eel, Leiuranus semicinctus
- Fish mimicking octopus mimicking fish!
- Dec 2011
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Nov 2011
- Unique role played at the Australian Museum
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #11
- Calling on Tongan Traditions: A special visit
- DigiVol: What......you work with dead insects!
- The Australian Museum Student Forum 2011
- This week in Fish: Murray Cod Movie
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #10
- Two new species of moss frog discovered
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #9
- This week in Fish: Hagfishes - masters of defence
- DigiVol: The Wonder of Insects
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #8
- Amazing new hagfish behaviour
- Threadfin Seasnail swimming at 2400 m!
- Oceans: the litmus test
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #7
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #6
- Oct 2011
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Sep 2011
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #4
- Coral trout spawning
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #3
- This week in Fish: Dani, Fanny and Emperors
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #2
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 12
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 11
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 10
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 9
- This week in Fish: Bastard Trumpeter and Childish Pearleye
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 8
- DigiVol: Our first blog post
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 7
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #1
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 6
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 5
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 4
- Coral Biodiversity Expedition #1
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 3
- This week in Fish: First Kidako Moray image
- For Arts Sake! – Visiting Bali #2
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 2
- Welcome to the Jungle - Day 1
- Field notes with ukelele
- This week in Fish: Vale - Dr Robert McDowall
- Aug 2011
- Jul 2011
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Jun 2011
- Pacific Leaping Blenny doing its thing
- This week in Fish: Pacific Leaping Blenny
- Spikefin Goby, Discordipinna griessingeri
- Huge Oarfish in the shallows
- Dusky Whaler juveniles in Sydney 2011
- This week in Fish: Moorish Idols and sponge eaters
- Which fishes eat sponges?
- This week in Fish: Back to reality
- Kermadec wrap-up
- May 2011
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Apr 2011
- This week in Fish: Pineapplefish and Surf Sardine
- Dolphins at Manly
- This week in Fish: Whale Shark sighting
- Rare books come up for air
- Whale Shark in Botany Bay - April 2011
- This week in Fish: Lots of sharks and Fin Forensics
- Fin forensics and the fish collection
- This week in Fish: undescribed anglerfish and bellowsfish
- This week in Fish: Find a fish launched
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Mar 2011
- My little interview with Tim Flannery
- This week in Fish: Ellie the eel
- An eel called Ellie
- Tim Flannery is in the house on Thursday night!
- One small step
- Southerly Sargassum Anglerfish
- Earthquakes and tsunamis
- This week in Fish: Shark in trouble
- Do you really need that shopping bag?
- This week in Fish: Southern Smiler
- Solar power switched on
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Feb 2011
- 10,000 teenagers wanted!
- This week in Fish: Electric rays and tsunami hoax
- You're toasted!
- This week in Fish: A lost Mozambique Seabream
- Dream weaver: a new collection of Maori Kete
- This week in Fish: Small fishes and shark ageing
- Uhi ta moko: Art and practice of Maori tattooing
- Cyclone Yasi viewed from Lizard Island
- This week in Fish: Red Handfish and lumpfish
- Obsidian artefacts from Papua New Guinea: major new publication
- Lizard Island and Cyclone Yasi
- Jan 2011
- Dec 2010
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Nov 2010
- Early coral spawning this year
- Fish Collection tour
- Design for Humanity
- This week in Fish: First Black Marlin
- Sustainable seafood
- Plastic state of mind
- This week in Fish: Cod and Galaxias
- This week in Fish: Triggerfish movies
- Tasmania bans plastic bags
- Fish in hot water
- More on that amazing discovery
- The truth about electricity prices
- Where have all the Turtles Gone?
- National Recycling Week, 8th to the 14th November and a new book
- This week in Fish: Flatworm mimic and shark teeth
- GBROOS comes to Lizard Island
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Oct 2010
- This week in Fish: Scalloped Hammerhead
- This week in Fish: Flyingfishes in flight
- Welcome to the Lizard Island Research Station blog
- First terrestrial mammal recorded from Lizard Island
- This week in Fish: Grow a backbone!
- Grow a backbone!
- Flying foxes on powerlines
- This week in Fish: Suckling fish
- A fish that suckles its young
- This week in Fish: Baby shark cannibals
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Sep 2010
- What's in a name?
- This week in Fish: Eel with a 'fishing rod tongue'
- This week in Fish: Candiru and Slingjaw Wrasse
- Slingjaw Wrasse feeding
- Humphead Maori Wrasse - up close and personal
- Fish frontiers
- Candiru - careful where you go...
- This week in Fish: Deepsea anglerfishes and the Lilac-tip Basslet
- Psychedelic frogfish makes a splash
- Common and Standard Names
- The exciting life of Anglerfishes
- This week in Fish: Shrek Fish, Frill and Megamouth Sharks
- Asian Sheepshead Wrasse
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Aug 2010
- Frill Shark in Japan
- Megamouth Shark movie
- This week in Fish: Fantastic fish feeding footage
- Eastern Blue Groper and Striped Catfish
- Fantastic fish feeding footage
- This week in Fish: BBC Life and Banggai Cardinalfish
- BBC Life - Convict Fish footage
- BBC Life - Flyingfish footage
- BBC Life - Sailfish feeding
- Oil Spills and Plastic
- Environmental Education
- BBC Life - Common Seadragon footage
- This week in Fish: White Shark and sleeping fishes
- Swimming with a Whale Shark
- Deepsea trench research trip
- White Sharks aren't mindless killers
- Fangtooth feeding
- Food waste
- Sandtiger Shark Ultrasound
- This week in Fish: Spitting archerfish and 14 movies
- Archerfishes - sharpshooters of the mangroves
- More news from Pelagos
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Jul 2010
- This week in Fish: Dangerous times for divers and small fishes
- Sixgill Shark attacks bait
- Come welcome Plastiki
- Fantastic fish links from Pelagos
- This week in Fish: Hagfish slime and parasitic males
- Dangerous times for Stripey Snappers
- Strange eel from the collection
- Gidday Plastiki and Welcome to Australia!
- Who's the slimiest fish of all?
- Research grants recently awarded
- A radiation of river snails in Madagascar
- Challenging what it is to be a 'warrior'
- Australian Museum assists prosecution of illegal shark trafficking
- Au Revoir - Plastiki departs New Caledonia
- Biological collections are ecological research tools
- Our first female Prime Minister
- Turning the Tide
- Bonjour Plastiki – New Caledonia, the final stop
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Jun 2010
- Rebecca leaves us
- This week in Fish: Yellowfin Tuna and heaps of movies
- This week in Fish: Mr Blobby on the Gruen Transfer
- The Plastiki Expedition sets off on their final leg to Sydney
- The BP oil spill in the US
- A lecture by Dr Barry Smit one of Canada’s leading experts on climate change
- “Billabong Boy” – Arron Wood
- Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
- World Environment message from David de Rothschild.
- This week in Fish: Massive eel and Fish Dissection
- This week in Fish: Toxin glands and a meal to die for
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May 2010
- Update of The Plastiki Expedition
- This week in Fish: Mystery skeleton and great images
- This week in Fish: Parental care damselfishes and Leatherjacket Louse
- This week in Fish: Nemo look-alike and many new pages
- This week in Fish: Rebecca Field and a deepsea fish
- The monkey returns video clip
- Myoo Create
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Apr 2010
- This week in Fish: Old content becomes new
- Goodbye Mr Greg Bourne
- Ian Kiernan blogs on Plastiki
- Plastiki’s first stop
- Interesting plastic facts
- This week in Fish: Tongue Biters and an incredible spiderfish larva
- Tips for looking after our oceans
- This week in Fish: Robust Ghostpipefish and Banded Humbugs
- 5 gyres
- Plastiki Update 2
- Short film about a plastic bag
- This week in Fish: Tasselled Anglerfish and rockclimbing fish
- One Day Without Shoes
- Plastiki expedition update
- The breakdown of the world’s water content
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Mar 2010
- Exciting new ways of exploring biodiversity
- This week in Fish: Whiskered Prowfish and Common Seadragon mortality
- The Story of Bottled Water
- This week in Fish: Visiting researchers and Weeping Toadfish predators
- Sand paintings from Enga
- Plastiki heads to Oz
- This week in Fish: Lost Barramundi and a new Research Associate
- Earth Hour 2010
- Integrating taxonomy
- Trawling Antarctica for answers
- Welcome to Fish Bits
- Barramundi mystery solved
- Youth Accord on Biodiversity
- Feb 2010
- Jan 2010
- Dec 2009
- Nov 2009
- Oct 2009
- Sep 2009
- Aug 2009
- Jul 2009
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Jun 2009
- Introducing Parrys Raines
- AMBS celebrates National Archaeology Week
- Eel biodiversity region discovered
- 157 years of Australian Museum science at your fingertips
- Cracking the'genetic code' of gem stones
- Taxonomists share their expertise for biosecurity
- Swimming with the big fish, studying the small
- X-ray specs: viewing artefacts in a new light
- Amphibian Conservation in South-East Asia
- Deep-sea mystery solved as three become one
- Helping hand for a vulnerable little chat