Ian Potter Australian Wildlife Biobank
A major facility which opened at Museums Victoria in 2016, supported by the Ian Potter Foundation, to allow the long-term storage of Australian wildlife tissue samples for genetic research.
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During eruptions, misinformation can spread further than ash. How can we spot it?
Erupting or silent, volcanoes have always captured our imagination.
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80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering
Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.
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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.
