Science Bytes
Read about recent highlights of our research at the Australian Museum.
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Balinese Women Artists: Collecting their Stories and Paintings
Understanding Balinese classical paintings is the aim of the collaborative research project involving the Australian Museum and the University of Sydney. In October 2011 Siobhan Campbell, a PhD student, worked with Dr Stan Florek in Bali.
The Octopus and the 'Living Fossil': Closer Than We Thought
Q&A with the Museum biologist who helped answer an enduring question about the family tree of the second largest group of animals on earth: molluscs.
Unique role played at the Australian Museum
The Australian Museum’s scientists are often asked to apply their expertise in unexpected ways.
RDP: What......you work with dead insects!
Read here about two volunteers who work on the Digitisation Project
The Australian Museum Student Forum 2011
Showcasing the research done by students associated with the Museum...
Two new species of moss frog discovered
The mist-shrouded mountains of Vietnam reveal two new species of moss frog.
RDP: The Wonder of Insects
Rapid Digitisation Project: Check out these amazing images (on the right) of cicadas, tree hoppers, leaf hoppers, long legged flies and hawk moths taken by our volunteers...
Oceans: the litmus test
The oceans absorb much of the carbon dioxide we emit, but have they reached breaking point? asks ecologist Alan Jones.
Pygmy Squid in a dish!
Earlier in the year, Dr Mandy Reid was on a field trip at Sussex Inlet in NSW and collected a new species of Pygmy squid.
Twitter Stream
New Spirit Faces exhibit on, here's a Baining mendaska mask from PNG http://t.co/T2khGobO
Tongan traditions http://t.co/ZcA1s7mK
Lol RT @ka_williams: @jurassiclounge J-Lounge: "The Australian Museum is such a MILF! Museum I'd Like to Fill, that is."
RT @stevenalderton: Incredible Malangan masks on show in the Spirit Faces exhibition. 19 Masks from @austmus collection http://t.co/pVPgKRFx
@Kris_Kamm Glad you liked Wildlife Photographer. Did you catch any other exhibitions?
@aor_pompam Thanks for stopping by. Did you have a favourite exhibition by any chance?
@bazingapunks23 And were you knackered at the end? Hope you had fun here.
@UTSEnviroSci Thanks for the mention. Great exhibition, no?
@silvia_bobeica Thanks for visiting yesterday. Did you enjoy it?
If only we'd thought of this MT @mattfeltz: Museum gives kids blank room to sticker http://t.co/DmIsIfSw via @webist
