Explore

A podcast from the Australian Museum that takes you behind the scenes of expeditions, exhibitions and the lab to show you the world of Australia’s first museum. Discover how our scientists are using the collection’s 21.9 million objects and specimens to safeguard the extraordinarily rich biodiversity of our planet.

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4. The discovery of new species

The scientists of the Australian Museum Research Institute are hard at work investigating the world’s biodiversity – which sometimes means discovering animals not previously known to science. These discoveries teach us what has come before us, and what we need to protect for the generations that will come after us. In the final episode of Explore we head out into the field – from the deepest ocean trenches to the peaks of the Himalayas – to discover how the Australian Museum’s Chief Scientist Pr...

May 25, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3. Reasons for hope

If, like us, you’re anxious about the climate emergency, tune in: this episode is all about the gaining of wisdom in an uncertain world. We look to science, innovation and First Nations knowledges to learn how one young Australian is detoxifying the ocean and atmosphere, and what the world’s oldest link between humans and the land can teach us about managing the environment. In his 2021 Australian Museum Talbot Oration, Professor Tim Flannery calls for solutions. One of those is floating out at ...

May 25, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2. Unsettled: Our untold history revealed

Australia’s natural history museums, like many government institutions that played a role in colonisation, have been viewed with great suspicion by First Nations Peoples. Today, the Australian Museum stands firm in its commitment to acknowledge the wrongs of the past. Part of that process is truth-telling. In this episode, Laura McBride – Wailwan and Kooma woman, and Director, First Nations, at the Australian Museum – shares three important pieces of the 2021 exhibition, Unsettled . We hear from...

May 25, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1. Animal mysteries

Modern science’s rapidly evolving techniques are pretty impressive, but the big secrets of the animal world continue to keep our scientists guessing. In this episode, ancient creatures of Central Australia are unearthed by Australian Museum palaeontolgist Patrick Smith, while back in the present, frog expert Jodi Rowley hunts for answers to explain the mass frog die-off that plagues the eastern states. The combined power of the Australian Museum collections and citizen science may just offer som...

May 25, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Introducing Explore

The new, four-part podcast from the Australian Museum takes you behind the scenes of expeditions, exhibitions and the lab to show you the world of Australia’s first museum. Discover how our scientists are using the collection’s 21.9 million objects and specimens to safeguard the extraordinarily rich biodiversity of our planet. Full season out 25 May. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 10, 2022•2 min

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