Monthly Archives: November 2013

Nature's nappies

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Here at the Melbourne Museum Discovery Centre we are inundated with a wide variety of interesting enquiries. We recently received this stunning photograph from a keen bird enthusiast in Camberwell, wondering what was being fed to the young chicks. Single image include . .   Interestingly, the parent wattlebird pictured is not actually feeding this   …Continue Reading


Exploration of Sulawesi, Indonesia

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Bonnie Gambhir is a Computer Science student with interests in scientific exploration. Rashika Premchandralal is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology. Both are studying at the University of Melbourne. This is the second post of an MV Blog mini-series celebrating the past, present and future of exploration on planet Earth and commemorating the adventures of   …Continue Reading


Travel by tube

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Can you imagine zipping around your city – or even between cities – via vacuum tubes? The idea of using air to push or pull people through tubes is familiar from sci-fi shows like Futurama , but could we really travel by tube from Melbourne to Perth, say? Single image include . .   For   …Continue Reading


The Age of Exploration continues

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Chenae Neilson is a Master of Science in Human Geography student at the University of Melbourne. This is the first post of an MV Blog mini-series celebrating the past, present and future of exploration on planet Earth and commemorating the adventures of Alfred Russel Wallace who died 100 years ago today. Over the last 250   …Continue Reading


Logos for the various partners of OZCAM

OZCAM is an initiative of the Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC)