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By Author: Michael Hugill

A Grasshopper Leaps Out From the Pages of History #1

A Grasshopper Leaps Out From the Pages of History

When Technical Officer Jacquie Resci asked Research Associate Jean Weiner to relocate the foreign grasshoppers inside the Museum's Entomology Collection, she didn't expect him to find an unusual specimen with a very unusual history. Jacquie explains...

By: Michael Hugill, Category: Science, Date: 22 Aug 2012

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Social Musings: Stories from July

What's been happening on the Museum's Facebook and Twitter accounts? Online Producer Michael Hugill cuts out the stats and pastes in some of our more interesting social media stories (in a picture book format no less).

By: Michael Hugill, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 16 Aug 2012

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Niue's Only Endemic Butterfly Discovered by Museum Researcher

A Q&A with Australian Museum research associate, Rob Lachlan, the discoverer of a very rare species that will soon be the national butterfly of Niue (and feature on a special run of postage stamps!).

By: Michael Hugill, Category: Science, Date: 20 Jul 2012

Point and Shoot #3 - understanding people

Point and shoot #3 - Understanding People

Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King on the power and practice of photography. This week, it's 'understanding people'...

By: Michael Hugill, Category: At The Museum, Date: 30 Jan 2012

Point and Shoot #2 - telling stories 1

Point and shoot #2 - Telling Stories

Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King on the power and practice of photography. This week, it's 'telling stories'...

By: Michael Hugill, Category: At The Museum, Date: 30 Jan 2012

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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.

By: Michael Hugill, Category: Science, Date: 15 Dec 2011

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Jurassic Lounge FTW! (Please vote for us)


J-Lounge is going 'For The Win' in FBi Radio's SMAC awards and we'd really appreciate your vote.
 

By: Michael Hugill, Category: At The Museum, Date: 30 Nov 2011

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route (#2)

Ask a curator: What's Yiwarra Kuju?

A Q&A with John Carty, anthropologist and co-curator of our new exhibition, Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route.

By: Michael Hugill, Category: At The Museum, Date: 28 Nov 2011

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Interview with a teenage Photographer of the Year

The Natural History Museum London and BBC Wildlife Magazine have announced Wagga Wagga's Jack Salzke as the winner of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award, 15-17 years category.

By: Michael Hugill, Category: At The Museum, Date: 25 Nov 2011

Student Forum 2011 (#3)

The Australian Museum Student Forum 2011


Showcasing the research done by students associated with the Museum...

By: Michael Hugill, Category: Science, Date: 22 Nov 2011