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Australia Day Debate - Live Broadcast
In conjunction with the Australia Day Debate today at 2:30pm EST, we are broadcasting the event live on the web.
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Wollemi pine on display
Discovered as recently as 1994, the Wollemi Pine has been referred to as the 'botanical find of the 20th Century' and 'the equivalent of finding a small living dinosaur on Earth'.
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The Winny Show January 2011
Winny is back from fat camp and ready to thrill our visitors with her January show!
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From Drop Bears to Vampire Frogs
Our 'breaking news' display has changed from featuring the elusive Drop Bear to the newly discovered and fabulously named amphibian species, the Vampire Flying Frog. We kid you not!
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Breeding of Fraser's Rainforest Snail
Slightly larger than a Common Garden Snail, Fraser's Rainforest Snail, Sphaerospira fraseri, is a native species of land snail that inhabits wet forested habitat of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
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Should we celebrate Australia Day?
On the 23rd January 2011, at 2.30pm, the Museum will host an Australia Day Debate. You can listen to our speakers, Sam Watson and Nigel Parbury, debate whether the 26th January is the most appropriate date to celebrate our national identity. You will also have the opportunity to ask them your own
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What is From the Floor?
From the Floor is a blog all about the programs we run at the Museum's College Street site.
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In the news - December
A couple of interesting news stories have raised the interest of the exhibitions and web teams over the last few days - Dinosaurs, and Drop Bears.
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Museum Mystery of the Week!
Can you guess what our obscure looking museum exhibit is in 'Museum Mystery of the Week'?
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A Sticky Situation
On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top.
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Sticky Situation
On a street post in Darlinghurst a young female Titan Stick Insect, measuring 21cm in total, was found and taken to the Australian Museum. The insect must have become separated from its gumtree, unable to fly it wandered to the nearest structure and climbed to the top. This is a tail I
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Mount Merapi: it’s Australia’s ‘fault’
Not all exhibitions at the Museum take months or years of planning. Sometimes we have a day!
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QR Codes at the Museum
This week at the Australian Museum we have decided to go down the QR Code lane and place some extra interaction on a few of the Museum's favourite specimens.
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Quest for the perfect indoor pinhole camera
How do you create a pinhole camera that can be used inside a room with no windows or natural light and have the ability to demonstrate its own workings?
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