Listening for Nature

Researchers are using advanced digital tools to listen in on animal sounds and map who is where from croaks and calls.

The colour of birds' eggs

The aesthetic qualities of a bird egg can tell you a lot about the species that laid it.

A.J. Campbell on Google Arts & Culture

Passionate ornithologist, naturalist and photographer.

Birds and birdwatching

Birds are highly visible and vocal, spectacularly diverse and fascinating to watch and study.

Colour Variations: It doesn't look like that in the book

Museums, Specimens and Taxidermy

Bringing the dead to life - sort of!

Wild goodbyes

We've been blown away by the number of people who have reached out to us about Wild—here are some answers to your most often asked questions. 

Glowing animals: understanding bioluminescence and biofluorescence

What do a Platypus, a Dragonfish and a Scorpion all have in common?

Birthday honours: 21 of our favourite things about the Melbourne Museum

Fascinating facts about Melbourne’s favourite museum.

Flight of fashion: when feathers were worth twice their weight in gold

The high price of feathered hats in the 1800s.

Lunar New Year

This Lunar New Year, come for a tour of the Chinese Zodiac through the Museums Victoria collection.

A glimpse into the past, to enlighten the future of biodiversity on Earth

What can we learn from the first scientific descriptions of animals and the Earth’s biodiversity, written hundreds of years ago?

What’s in a name? An animal’s can be misleading

When is a tiger not a cat, a fox not a canine, and a jelly fish not a fish? Unfortunately, more often than you might think.

125-million-year-old footprints rewrite the history of birds in Australia

Ancient bird tracks found on Australia’s southeast coast, could be the oldest evidence for avian dinosaurs in the Southern Hemisphere.