Search results for "mystery"

• Museum Mystery of the Week!
  

  Can you guess what our obscure looking museum exhibit is in 'Museum Mystery of the Week'?

• Museum Mystery of the Week - Number Two
  

  Museum mystery number two was found on a beach in Queensland by one of our visitors and caused quite a stir  amongst staff! 

• Barramundi mystery solved
  

  Update: July 2014! - See movie, below. The case of the mysterious appearance of Barramundi in Sydney Harbour has been solved.

• Museum Mystery Number one solved!
  

  Museum Mystery number one is solved!

• Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families
  

   

• Mystery bone identified
  

  Our story begins with the finding of a strange bone on a bank of the Tweed River. A photo was sent to the Museum for identification...

• An Australian Angelshark at Mystery Bay
  

   

• Museum Mystery of the Week Number Two!
  

   

• Museum Mystery of the Week Number one
  

   

• Fun and games with the Mystery Investigators
  

   

• New England diamonds, a mysterious carbon ore, eastern Australia
  

   

• Use of zircons to resolve origins of sapphires in east Australian gem fields – the mysterious case of the shuffling sapphire volcanoes
  

   

• Deep-sea mystery solved as three become one
  

  So dramatic is the metamorphosis of whalefishes that until now scientists thought the larva, adult male and adult female specimens in collections were from three separate families of fishes.

• Another Night Parrot mystery
  

  Rare Night Parrot feathers have been obtained by the Australian Museum through unsolved circumstances.

• This week in Fish: Mystery skeleton and great images
  

  This week the international fish community worked together to identify a very strange skeleton.  Some beautiful new images have been added to the site, notably those of a Whale Shark and Fimbriate Moray.  We are also delighted to be able to show an image of a very rare tapetail (baby whalefish) taken by divers in Bali.  The text for another 48 pages has been migrated from the old site!