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2021

    New approaches to old collections

    Breakthrough science is taking place within Auckland Museum's natural history collection. In this blog, Natural Sciences (Land Vertebrates) Curator Matt Rayner and our latest cohort of young researchers reveals how new ideas and technologies can draw new insights from old specimens.

    Partnership leads to
    world-first for indigenous
    naming of new species

    A new species of pygmy pipehorse, a fish closely related to the seahorse, has been named by kaumātua (senior leaders) of Ngātiwai in a collaboration with biodiversity scientists from Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.

    The herpetological legacy
    of a professional clarinetist

    Born in New Plymouth in 1933, it seemed an unlikely scenario that Dr James Fawcett would build his research legacy at a university as far afield as Nebraska, but that’s exactly what he did.