discuss document export feedback print share Blog View by topic: Research All Archaeology Beyond our walls Collections Exhibitions Events Entangled Islands From the Director Geology History Learning MuseTech Taonga Māori Research Still Life War Memorial Kermadec Expedition Pou Maumahara Volume SW Pacific Expedition Show more View by date: 2021 Any 2025 2023 2024 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Show more New approaches to old collectionsBreakthrough 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 speciesA 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 legacyof a professional clarinetistBorn 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.