Stories that give you a behind-the-scenes look at the research and collections of Australia’s largest public museum organisation.
What DNA revealed about the weird deep-sea world of brittle stars
17 meteorites have been identified in Victoria, and some of them have changed the way we look at our universe.
New study peers beneath the skin of iconic lizards to find ‘chainmail’ bone plates – and lots of them.
As the night sky became polluted with light from electrified cities, people built planetariums. Today, they're more impressive than ever.
Dr Thomas Rich on his half century of discovering Australian dinosaurs, and our ancestors that lived alongside them.
Captain Edward McKenna’s photographs provide a glimpse into the life of soldiers on the journey to war.
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