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Some of the aims of our annual Fashion Less Waste design competition are revealed...

For our Deep Oceans exhibition Tina Mansson is painting the formations of the ocean floor onto the Museum’s ‘Globe’...

The stunning video below, shows large leptocephali filmed by divers at three locations within the Indonesian Archipelago from 2009 to 2011. 

What a great way to end the week, just finished a shoreline survey at Horseshoe Bay in Bermagui.

Everything came together today for the Bermagui Bioblitz, 5 school joined forces to survey 3 coastal ecosystems.

The second stop on my south coast journey was Tathra Public school where I visited with year 5 and 6 students.

A beautiful but mysterious notebook has been transferred to Archives from the Fish section.

Roger Lee from the Diving Organisation of University of Technology Sydney (DOUTS) captured this terrific footage of Coffin Rays mating.

Yet another piece of the deep oceans puzzle is coming together at the Australian Museum.

Most of the time, frogs deposit their eggs in a pond or stream and leave their offspring to fend for themselves. Limborg's Frogs, however...

Our newest exhibition, Deep Oceans, will be ready for the world to enjoy this June.

An interview with Vanessa Finney, Manager Archives and Records who talks about her experiences working with the Digitisation Project.

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

For our Deep Oceans exhibition, Angus Adameitis and our prep team are building a full scale replica of Otis Barton and William Bebee's Bathysphere.