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Could some aspects of the urban environment actually benefit plants and animals?

Honiara is gateway to almost 1,000 islands and a melting pot of people from across the Solomon Archipelago.

Specialised tools made of obsidian were used for tattooing c.3000 years ago by early Pacific societies.

This years award goes to Professor Frank Talbot AM.

Hitchhiking on turtles and ship hulls, some species of Podocerus know how to travel while others have gone unsampled for 150 years.

Celebrating half a century of polychaete research at the Australian Museum.

Could the odour emitted from a sample of a rhinoceros horn be enough to identify the species that it came from?

What brings a tropical jellyfish to the temperate waters off New South Wales?

The newly described Tiger Sandgoby, Nesogobius tigrinus might be small but it is out on the prowl for a mate.

The Papunya paintings are an Australian national treasure and the Australian Museum's most impressive collection of western desert art.

The global trade in wildlife threatens more than just rhinos, elephants and tigers: amphibians are also at risk

Searching for Guadalcanal's lost mammals and a new period of scientific expedition in Solomon Islands

The story of one little birds encounter with a helicopter and its legacy of helping humans to avoid such encounters in the future.

Have you ever wondered how large fish specimens are stored here in the Australian Museum collections?

Dr Tyrone Lavery gives us an insight into the research methods and identification of bat and rat species in the Solomon Islands.