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Did you know Australia is home to the worlds largest and smallest species of freshwater crayfish?

What do a pygmys, dumplings and sucker-bums have in common?

How the craftsmen in the New Guinea Highlands helped to solve an archaeological mystery.

A recently digitised album of watercolours by former Museum curator Gerard Krefft includes drawings of jewel beetles and flower chafers.

A stone that served humanity for millennia.

New research sheds light on a group of tiny snails that do us all a favour.

 A blog series investigating stories and images from the earliest collection of photographs in the Museum's history.

Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks thought they had collected a shield made in Botany Bay...

All you ever wanted to know about these species and more, is now available in one new book!

DigiVol recognises the hard work and professionalism shown by a masterful group of volunteers

A new blog series investigating the stories and images from the earliest collection of photographs in the Museum's history.

What are polychaetes and why International Polychaete Day?

How does the largely unexplored world of biodiversity living within us all affect wildlife management?

We discover that Australian estuarine worms hitch a lift up and down the coast using currents!

How do you move a 3.5-metre-high elephant skeleton that weighs more than 270 kilograms and yet is extremely delicate?