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Professor Shane Ahyong and Julie Ellmers to lead Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI).

Today the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Hawaii announced that Professor Kristofer Helgen has been appointed as its new President and CEO.

The Australian Museum (AM) announced today that Chief Experience Officer Russell Briggs will leave the AM on July 11, 2025, stepping away from full-time work to pursue consulting opportunities.

The seventh annual FrogID Week has once again gathered a vital snapshot for frog conservation thanks to tens of thousands of citizen scientists.

2025 will mark 15 years of ANSTO’s partnership with the Australian Museum to deliver the ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology.

When the opportunity to partner with a close neighbour and expert in forensic science came about, the Australian Museum jumped at the opportunity.

New research shows that keeping fishers away from some reefs increases their catch of Coral Groupers (aka Coral Trout) on other reefs.

Four paintings from the Australian Museum Balinese Collection are currently on display at AGNSW alongside a short film by Balinese-Australian artist Leyla Stevens.

Scientific innovation and invention can achieve scale when researchers work together with external partners to create real-world improvements – often in new or unexpected ways.

Dive into the fascinating world where art and science collide and explore how palaeontologists bring ancient life back from the canvas of time.

Reports of unusually large Sydney Funnel-web spiders from around Newcastle led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus.

After years of studying snails on Australia’s Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Drs Isabel Hyman and Frank Köhler began to cast their net wider in search of closely related species.

AMRI researchers are conducting the largest study to date on volutes, a diverse family of shelled molluscs, to expand knowledge about these species, particularly in Australia.

Sally Hurst is a Casual Education Presenter at the Australian Musuem. In this blog, she shares what she has learned through the program and explains why it is so important for rural kids to have role models in STEM to look up to.

The frogs of the Northern Wheatbelt of New South Wales are poorly sampled. We need your help to document frogs and fill in data gaps so we created a priority map to highlight areas where your FrogID recordings will make the biggest difference to our understanding of frogs!