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Discover Documentary: Biobank

Discover the Ian Potter Australian Wildlife Biobank: a state-of-the-art liquid nitrogen storage facility containing tissue, venom, and even live cells. 

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Listening for Nature

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

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Under fire: The animals threatened by Australia’s bushfire crisis

If there’s one place in the world that knows about extinction, it’s a natural history museum.

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Glowing animals: understanding bioluminescence and biofluorescence

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

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Deaccessioning: Why do museums remove objects from collections?

The public collections found in museums across the world are a historic record. But that does not mean everything stays there forever.

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Help us document biodiversity – record your own sightings

Green and brown mottled toad huddled on brown ground.
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Sudell's Frog

A burrowing species that usually come to the surface only after summer rains to breed.

Orange and brown frog on orange-brown soil surface.
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Eastern Banjo Frog

Burrows in the soil and are sometimes found when people dig in their backyard.

Bright green frog on partially submerged rock.
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Leaf Green River Tree Frog

These frogs frequent fast-flowing rivers and are excellent swimmers and jumpers. 

A Spotted Grass Frog with yellow stripe along its back.
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Spotted Grass Frog

A medium-sized frog with distinctive large regular-shaped brown or olive green blotches along its back.

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  • Professional learning
  • Join Museum Teachers

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