The ANWC holds almost 200 000 irreplaceable scientific specimens, including skins, skeletons, specimens in spirit, bird egg collections, a wildlife sound library and frozen tissue.
Research conducted at the ANWC addresses the diversity, evolution, and conservation of Australia's wildlife, focusing on the taxonomy (scientific classification), systematics and phylogenetics (study of evolutionary relationships among organisms and the classification to reflect them) and biogeography of Australasian terrestrial vertebrates.
Photographer : David McClenaghan on June 11 2010.
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<table style="border:1px solid;padding:2px; width:310px;" ><tr><td><a href="https://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/image/11418/"><img src="https://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/images/embed/300_0_DA12151.jpg" width="300" alt="Dr Fred Ford of CSIRO’s Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) placing a Domestid beetle larva onto a skull. Domestids are used to clean flesh off the bones of museum specimens" style="margin: 0 0 5px 0; border: 0px;"></a><br/><a href="https://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/image/11418/">Dr Fred Ford of CSIRO’s Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) placing a Domestid beetle larva onto a skull. Domestids are used to clean flesh off the bones of museum specimens</a><br />by CSIRO</td></tr></table>
![]() Dr Fred Ford of CSIRO’s Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) placing a Domestid beetle larva onto a skull. Domestids are used to clean flesh off the bones of museum specimens by CSIRO |
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