Website Search Results - The Australian Museum

Mammals
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/

Discover Australia's mammals - all of which have hair or fur, produce milk and are warm-blooded.

Published 11 October 2018

Mammalogy mammals
Fishes
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/

Fishes are very diverse and have a range of body sizes from the massive whale shark down to the smallest fish under a centimetre in length.

Published 11 October 2018

Ichthyology Fish
Worms
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/worms/

The Australian Museum houses an important collection of earthworms, bristle worms and leeches, including an extensive bristle worm collection from Australia and Indo-Pacific. Learn about these resilient creatures that have virtually conquered every habitat on the planet!

Published 11 October 2018

marine invertebrates
Birds
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/

Find out more about the unique and ingenious ways Australian birds have adapted to habitats. The Australian Museum has one of the largest ornithological collections in the Southern Hemisphere, containing a wide cross-section of these feathered animals.

Published 11 October 2018

ornithology
Molluscs
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/molluscs/

Learn more about this unique and varied animal group, molluscs are very diverse in appearance and habitat.

Published 11 October 2018

malacology
Crustaceans
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/crustaceans/

Find out more about crustaceans - crabs, lobsters, prawns, barnacles - and what makes them such interesting creatures. The Australian Museum has a long tradition of studying crustaceans and this is reflected in the extensive Marine Invertebrates collection.

Published 11 October 2018

marine invertebrates
Centipedes and millipedes
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/centipedes/

Step into the multi-legged world of these crawling creatures and learn how important they are to our environment.

Published 11 October 2018

arachnology
Mineral properties
https://australian.museum/learn/minerals/properties/

Minerals can be identified using a number of properties. These include physical and chemical properties such as hardness, density, cleavage and colour, crystallography, electrical conductivity, magnetism, radioactivity and fluorescence.

Published 13 November 2018

gem geoscience minerals mineralogy earth sciences Earth and Environmental Science Gems gemstone
Science of life
https://australian.museum/learn/science/

Learn about biodiversity, the scientific study of life and organisms, and the story of human evolution.

Published 25 October 2018

natural history natural sciences
Biodiversity
https://australian.museum/learn/science/biodiversity/

Biodiversity is the variety of all living things; the different plants, animals and micro organisms, the genetic information they contain and the ecosystems they form.

Published 11 October 2018

biodiversity

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru

Come face-to-face with one of the most remarkable gold collections to ever tour the globe in the immersive exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru and add-on VR experience.

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Tails from the Coasts

Presented with the National Museum of Singapore, this culturally significant collection of watercolours brings to life extraordinary species and captivating stories.

Special exhibition
Opening Saturday 10 May

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Wild Planet

Welcome to life on Earth. Every one of Earth’s millions of species is unique, but they are all connected through evolution. Come and see life in all its glorious diversity – over 400 animals under one roof!

Permanent exhibition
Open daily

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Minerals

Be dazzled by over 1800 spectacular rocks and minerals in our new Minerals Gallery.

Permanent exhibition
Open daily

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