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Science
Fantastic fish links from Pelagos
Ichthyologist, Adrian Flynn coordinates the Pelagos Email Group. His emails contain a variety of really interesting ocean realted news. He has kindly allowed me to repost this content. Some of the material presented is incredible! Thank very much you Adrian.
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Science
Strange eel from the collection
Research Associate Ken Graham discovered a strange eel in the fish collection.
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Education
The Keeping Place Exhibition Launch
The Australian Museum launched an exhibition of amazing traditional and contemporary Indigenous Australian artworks.
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Science
Who's the slimiest fish of all?
Hagfishes can produce huge quantities of mucus!; A 50 cm long hagfish can fill an 8 litre bucket of water with slime in minutes.
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Education
NAIDOC Week 2010 Celebrations!
The Australian Museums NAIDOC Week 2010 Celebrations were exciting and colourful!!!
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Education
The Australian Museum Hosts CONASTA
The 2010 national conference for the Australian Science Teachers Association held its welcome function at the Australian Museum.
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Science
Gidday Plastiki and Welcome to Australia!
After months at sea and dealing with all sorts of weather conditions the Plastiki and her crew arrived on our shores, in QLD, yesterday.
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Science
A radiation of river snails in Madagascar
Did Madagascar's famous biodiversity evolve on the island itself or did it arrive from the African continent? Malacologist Frank Kohler reports.
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Science
Challenging what it is to be a 'warrior'
A new partnership between Juvenile Justice and the Australian Museum is helping young people from Pacific communities build self-esteem by reconnecting with culturally significant artefacts.
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Science
Australian Museum assists prosecution of illegal shark trafficking
Fisheries authorities frequently ask the Australian Museum DNA Laboratory to provide forensic identification of illegally taken shark fins, says Museum geneticist Dr Rebecca Johnson.
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Education
Follow Education Services on Twitter
You can use Twitter to find out about news and events for teachers and students at the Australian Museum.
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Science
Biological collections are ecological research tools
In an article in Biological Reviews, Australian Museum Senior Fellow Dr Graham Pyke and Stanford Universitys' Professor Paul Ehrlich, discuss the increasing use of biological collections in museums and herbaria to address environmental and ecological research issues.
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Science
Au Revoir - Plastiki departs New Caledonia
After a few months at sea and one last stop in New Caledonia team Plastiki is making their way towards our shore – hooray!
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Museullaneous
What is Foursquare?
A passing fad, yet another social networking site to annoy us or is there something to Foursquare?
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Museullaneous
Smithsonian Commons Prototype
The Smithsonian Commons is doing more than "... enabling discoveries. It will make possible new fields of discovery". What is the Smithsonian Commons and how will this be made possible?