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Everything came together today for the Bermagui Bioblitz, 5 school joined forces to survey 3 coastal ecosystems.

The second stop on my south coast journey was Tathra Public school where I visited with year 5 and 6 students.

A beautiful but mysterious notebook has been transferred to Archives from the Fish section.

Roger Lee from the Diving Organisation of University of Technology Sydney (DOUTS) captured this terrific footage of Coffin Rays mating.

Yet another piece of the deep oceans puzzle is coming together at the Australian Museum.

Most of the time, frogs deposit their eggs in a pond or stream and leave their offspring to fend for themselves. Limborg's Frogs, however...

Our newest exhibition, Deep Oceans, will be ready for the world to enjoy this June.

An interview with Vanessa Finney, Manager Archives and Records who talks about her experiences working with the Digitisation Project.

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

For our Deep Oceans exhibition, Angus Adameitis and our prep team are building a full scale replica of Otis Barton and William Bebee's Bathysphere.

While building the Deep Oceans exhibition, we’ve had to come up with ways of effectively demonstrating the vastness, as well as the conditions of the Deep Oceans.

This movie clip shows a sawfish feeding. Sawfishes can slash from side to side with the rostrum to stun, impale or even cut prey fishes in half. The rostrum can also pin fishes to the substrate where they are ingested.

Fishes of the genus Liopropoma have have extremely long ornate second and third dorsal fin spines during their pelagic larval phase. This ornamentation is lost when the larvae metamophose during the transition between open water habitat and the reefs where Liopropoma species liv

Dr Zoe Richards has just returned from an expedition to Kosrae, Micronesia, where she was surveying coral biodiversity. In this post, she describes her scuba diving surveys beneath the Island of the Sleeping Lady.