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Explore podcast episode 4: The discovery of new species
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/explore-podcast-ep-4-discovery-of-new-species/In the final episode of Explore season one, we head out into the field to discover how the Australian Museum’s Chief Scientist Professor Kris Helgen and palaeontologist Dr Patrick Smith identify new species, and what it means to add new branches to the Tree of Life.
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2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the journalists telling the forgotten stories of Australia's pioneering female computer scientists
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-prizes-hidden-women-computing/How do they do it? Meet some of the 2020 AM Eureka Prizes finalists.
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‘Red Listing’ to help save Southeast Asia’s Amphibians
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/red-listing-to-help-save-southeast-asias-amphibians/A first step in biodiversity conservation is determining which species are most threatened with extinction.
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Trawling Antarctica for answers
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/antarctic-field-trip/An 8-week trip to Antarctica has returned excellent collections of bottom-dwelling invertebrate communities and valuable insights for sustainable fishing and conservation management of this vulnerable ecosystem, writes Museum Technical Officer Roger Springthorpe.
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Hide and Seek wins Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition in 2018
https://australian.museum/about/organisation/media-centre/hide-and-seek-wins-australian-geographic-nature-photographer-of-the-year-competition-in-2018/A mesmerising image of a school of fish fleeing from predators, ‘Hide and Seek’ by Malaysia-based, British photographer, has won the 2018 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year.
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Explore podcast episode 3: Reasons for hope
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/explore-podcast-ep-3-reasons-for-hope/Tune in to this episode as we look to science, innovation and First Nations knowledges to learn how one young Australian is detoxifying the ocean and atmosphere, and what the world’s oldest link between humans and the land can teach us about managing the environment.
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Afterlife: Embalming the Egyptian Way
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/afterlife-embalming-the-egyptian-way/Australian connections in the science of the mummy.
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Australia: home of the (prehistoric) crocs
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/australia-home-of-the-prehistoric-crocs/Opalised fossils help tell the story of a small crocodile that lived among the dinosaurs.
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A Cave Made to Order
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-a-cave-made-to-order/The Australian Museum used to have its own richly-decorated limestone cave
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Climbing Balls Pyramid
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/climbing-balls-pyramid/A seasoned climber's reflections on scaling the world's tallest volcanic stack.
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