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WeDigBio is a 4-day event that engages citizen scientists worldwide to help digitise specimens held in natural history collections.

Powerful genome-based methods open new avenues in land snail systematics.

Local knowledge, kastom and hard work leads to an unexpected find on Bougainville Island.

Live at the AM, award-winning photographer Luke Tsharke discusses the joys and risks of the getting the perfect shot.

Walking through the rooms lived in by her ancestor William Sheridan Wall, delighted 12 year old Imogen Fennessy.

DigiVol has taken digital images of prints of some of the Australian Museum's large collection of glass plate negatives.

In the 19th century natural history museums from around the world worked together to provide eye catching displays.

As the date of the Lord Howe Island rodent eradication draws nearer, we have assessed the status of the islands endangered land snails.

AM Collections Officer Yvonne Carrillo-Huffman takes us high into the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea to meet the Asaro Mud Men.

A green frog with orange hands and feet and purple thighs leaps into the spotlight.

Over an extraordinary four week period in late 1882, four rare giant sunfish were captured in Sydney waters.

A little bit of the early history of the Archives and Records area

The Australian Museum has commissioned the creation of five Asaro Mud Masks to be held in the Cultural Collection.

Contemporary technology applied to an old problem provides a rapid solution with potential to assist biodiversity studies

CEO Kim McKay in conversation with Director of Programs, Exhibitions & Cultural Collections-Steven Alderton.