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Fisheries authorities frequently ask the Australian Museum DNA Laboratory to provide forensic identification of illegally taken shark fins, says Museum geneticist Dr Rebecca Johnson.

You can use Twitter to find out about news and events for teachers and students at the Australian Museum.

In an article in Biological Reviews, Australian Museum Senior Fellow Dr Graham Pyke and Stanford Universitys' Professor Paul Ehrlich, discuss the increasing use of biological collections in museums and herbaria to address environmental and ecological research issues.

After a few months at sea and one last stop in New Caledonia team Plastiki is making their way towards our shore – hooray!

A passing fad, yet another social networking site to annoy us or is there something to Foursquare?

The Smithsonian Commons is doing more than "... enabling discoveries. It will make possible new fields of discovery". What is the Smithsonian Commons and how will this be made possible?

History has been made in Australian politics. Australia see’s the first female PM sworn in.

The ocean gives us so much yet we continue to treat it with little respect.

What do children think about the credibility of information they find online? A new report from MIT Press gives answers.

The Plastiki left Samoa this morning (our time). The crew has been replaced, the Plastiki restocked, spirits are high and they will sail into the harbour in 30 to 40 days time – Good luck crew!!

There are many questions to be answered about how this oil spill in the USA happened. What policy and procedures were in place to ensure an environmental catastrophe would be avoided if something were to go wrong?

On the 1st of June in South Korea governments gave the go ahead for the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Is there a place for museums and Wikipedia? Yes, according to the British Museum.

Just been reading a review of several museums in an article by Amanda Lohrey called The Absent Heart in The Monthly, June 2010. Got me inspired to re-visit the work I did on narrative in my doctoral thesis, and here's some thoughts.

After nearly a couple of weeks on xmas island the Plastiki with new crew members set sail for Fiji – or say they thought!