Blog archive:
February 2023

FrogID Week has once again rapidly gathered data for frog conservation, receiving more than 3 frog records per minute and gathering more than 32,000 frog records from over 4,600 concerned citizen scientists. We are also excited to announce our Top Frogger of 2022!

In the lab at the Australian Museum, conservator Clare Kim brings her steady hand and laser sharp concentration to minute insect specimens under a microscope.

This year the Australian Museum Herpetology Department travelled to the Border Ranges, to collect a specimen of the threatened Stephen’s Banded Snake.

In 1910, Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), a French Egyptologist, sent two Egyptian throwing sticks (boomerangs) to the Australian Museum. Watch Dr Stan Florek reveal more about these objects.

Our giant shark has been transformed as part of Sydney WorldPride’s Rainbow City.

The Coughran Crayfish Collection, containing many specimens from remote and very difficult-to-access rainforest localities was recently acquired by the Australian Museum.