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  • Miner stocks continue to rise, closing out small consumers
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-miner-stocks-continue-to-rise/

    A large-scale research collaboration has discovered why the native Noisy Miner now dominates bird communities in eastern Australia.

    Published 22 April 2015
    AMRI blog bird Australian birds ornithology
  • Exploring the diversity of Christmas tree worms in Indo-Pacific coral reefs
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-exploring-the-diversity-of-christmas-tree-worms/

    Genetics comes to the rescue in solving a mystery surrounding psychedelically coloured marine worms!

    Published 07 July 2015
    Marine invertebrate worms blog
  • Our Global Neighbours: Private Potter in Service
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/our-global-neighbours-private-potter-in-service/

    Life in science in a time of war.

    Published 15 April 2015
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  • Our Global Neighbours: Who owned the Shirase Sword?
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/our-global-neighbours-who-owned-the-shirase-sword/

    Sydney University historian investigates.

    Published 10 April 2015
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  • Archaeological science celebrates 40 years
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-archaeological-science-celebrates-40-years/

    The toolbox for archaeology now contains a diverse collection of highly sophisticated scientific techniques.

    Published 09 April 2015
    technology archaeology blog scientific research
  • Douglas Grant, Aboriginal Digger
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/douglas-grant-aboriginal-digger/

    Elizabeth McKinnon searches for the true story of Douglas Grant, one of many Aboriginal men who enlisted in World War I.

    Published 18 February 2016
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  • The phantom snail
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-the-phantom-snail/

    Perched on a hill of a Kimberley island lives Taiwanassiminea phantasma a newly described and rare species of land snail.

    Published 07 April 2015
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  • Traffic jam INSIDE the Museum
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/traffic-jam-inside-the-museum/

    Materials Conservation are at the epicentre of all collection movement across the Museum, and April is going to be a superhighway!

    Published 02 April 2015
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  • Our Global Neighbours: Erotic Life and Art
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/our-global-neighbours-erotic-life-and-art/

    Triumph over the taboo images exposing what is hidden but desired in the Australian Museum collection.

    Published 31 March 2015
    taboo blog Anthropology
  • Saving inbred plant and animal populations from extinction
    https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-saving-inbred-populations-from-extinction/

    Genetic rescue of small inbred populations by outcrossing

    Published 07 July 2015
    birds blog
  • Jurassic World by Brickman

    Kmart presents <i>Jurassic World</i> by Brickman<sup>®</sup> at the Australian Museum until 17 July.

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    Open until 17 July.

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  • 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum

    The Westpac Long Gallery showcases 100 treasures from our collections alongside the stories of the 100 people who’ve helped shape Australia.

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The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.

Image credit: gadigal yilimung (shield) made by Uncle Charles Chicka Madden