More from Relics, the #lego installation at the #australianmuseum :

88th Street, the performing arts district built into an upright piano: a jazz club, a group of street performers, an escapologist hanging upside down in a water tank and… wait, is that Bob Ross? (Hard to get a good photo but yes he has a paint palette in hand)

Family’s 7.1 metre ancient discovery on outback station sparks excitement: ‘Incredible’

An incredibly rare and ancient discovery in outback Queensland has sparked a frenzy of excitement among Aussies. A…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #AustralianAgeofDinosaurs #AustralianMuseum #CassandraPrince #ichthyosaur #inlandsea #marinereptiles #outback #SamDaniels
https://www.newsbeep.com/83737/

“It’s like looking at ghosts”: inside the Australian Museum’s extinction cabinets. When people encounter the cabinets cataloguing the mammals wiped out since colonisation, they often cry. But what is the most useful way to grieve the destruction of a species? #Extinction #AustralianMuseum #Conservation #GriefAndHope

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/13/australian-museum-extinction-cabinets-endangered-species

If you think a platypus is weird, or an echidna is strange, can you imagine what would happen if you combined the two?

The so-called "echidnapus" – an ancient creature recently identified from a batch of long-forgotten fossils at Australian Museum – may just be the Rosetta Stone of early mammal evolution!

Learn more about this awesome, ancient and frankly bizarre creature… https://ausgeo.co/echidnapus

#museum #museums #discovery #platypus #echidna #australia #seeaustralia #australiagram #australian #exploreaustralia #australianwildlife #animals #animal #megafauna #wildlife #nature #australianmuseum

👨‍🎨 Peter Shouten
#environment #academia #research #academicchatter #biology #history #histodon #nature #wildlife #science #scientist

The intention is to see what it tells us about the mantle in this region of the Pacific and, in turn, what that can tell us about mantle processes in terrestrial planets.

We published one paper in 2022 (here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00288306.2022.2108068) and have just come back from another fieldwork session on the island with a bunch more samples!

And I want to thank the Australian Museum (#AustralianMuseum) for its support as well as #AustralianGeographic, #GeologicalSocietyUK, #LinneanSocietyNSW, & #LHIBoard.

Ramses the Great & the Gold of the Pharaohs

Australian Museum #Sydney
Exhibition opened 18 November 2023
https://australian.museum/exhibition/ramses/

In Ramses II's 16th regnal year, following the Battle of Kadesh, internal developments in the Hittite royal family would lead to the world's first known peace treaty.

Relationships between Egypt and the Hittite Kingdom changed drastically after the signing of the peace treaty, heralding a period of stability, improved trade networks and cooperation.

#PeaceTreaty #RamsesII #Antiquities #Egypt #AustralianMuseum #AncientHistory

Dear #AustralianMuseum, what (and I ask this with respect) the hell?

#DinosaurAutopsy #WhatDidYouDoToThatTRex

Thursday plan:

x coffee
* train to the city with the fam
* visit the Australian Museum!

#OnHolidays #AustralianMuseum