Articles
Stories that give you a behind-the-scenes look at the research and collections of Australia’s largest public museum organisation.
Highlights
Five arms, no heart and a global family
What DNA revealed about the weird deep-sea world of brittle stars
Our Wondrous Planet: Behind the scenes
Step behind the scenes and hear from cultural knowledge holders and extraordinary experts who brought the exhibition to life.
A cornucopia of tiny, bizarre whales used to live in Australian waters – here’s one of them
If alive today, these tiny whales would be as iconically Australian as kangaroos.
Rare reptiles are moving up mountains as the world warms. They can’t keep doing it forever
Isolating the impacts of climate change is hard. But a new study shows how ancient fossils can help.
Australian Innovation: The World's First Minimum Wage
Workers’ pay has not always factored in just how much it actually cost to live.
Australian Innovation: Solar Power
What if you could print out a solar panel, like you print an image on a sheet of paper?
Australian Innovation: The Black Box Flight Recorder
A world-changing innovation that almost failed to launch.
Australian Innovation: The Combine Harvester
Stripping back the legend of HV McKay and the invention of the combine harvester that started a worldwide revolution.
An extinct echidna the size of a small child once roamed Victoria, new fossil shows
More than 100 years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is grating us new insights into deep time.
