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  • Gondwanan Temperate Rainforest is wet, cool, and lush green.
    AMRI

    Unravelling the frog diversity of Gondwanan rainforests

    Continuing research in rainforests of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland has recently resulted in the scientific description of two unique frog species.

    Written by Stephen Mahony / Category AMRI / Published 24 June 2022
  • A green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) being attacked by mosquitos.
    AMRI

    It’s CSI – frogs edition and we need you!

    Check your frog photos for frog-biting flies and submit them to our study to help us develop a new, DNA based frog detection method.

    Written by Timothy Cutajar / Category AMRI / Published 21 June 2022
  • A juvenile bluestreak wrasse attending to a fearsome predator – a giant moray eel Gymnothorax javanicus
    AMRI

    News from LIRS: Learning from the cleaners and their clients

    Each month, a selected blog from Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) is featured at the AM. LIRRF supports scientific research & education at the AM’s Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. This month, we feature: Learning from the cleaners and their clients.

    Written by David Shannon / Category AMRI / Published 20 June 2022
  • A Giant Australian cuttlefish, Sepia apama.
    AMRI

    Bones of contention

    In a fierce rivalry surpassed only by rugby players, Australian waters are home to creatures that are not seen in Aotearoa New Zealand. Or . . . are they? Cephalopod expert, Dr Mandy Reid at the Australian Museum, explores further.

    Written by Mandy Reid / Category AMRI / Published 17 June 2022
  • Matavai Pacific Cultural Arts group adorned in fresh leaves pictured with Samoan NRL Penrith Panthers rugby players before their performance
    At the Museum

    Samoa Day in Sydney 2022

    Earlier this week, thousands of Sāmoan and Pacific Islander diaspora gather at Liverpool’s Whitlam Centre to celebrate 60 Years of Sāmoan Independence.

    Written by Moemoana Schwenke / Category At the Museum / Published 17 June 2022
    First Nations Pacific Culture Sāmoa
  • Author and social researcher, Rebecca Huntley
    At the Museum

    The Talbot Oration: Inspiring Visions for a Climate Solution

    Author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley explores how images can hold the solution to a better climate future in the Australian Museum’s Talbot Oration.

    Category At the Museum / Published 16 June 2022
    audio recording climate change Talbot
  • Land snails living under a dead log in the Gondwanan Rainforests of NSW.
    AMRI

    Looking beyond the headlines: How did snails fare in the 2019-2020 bushfires?

    A new study by Australian Museum researchers sheds light on the impacts of the 2019-2020 wildfires on land snails in north-eastern NSW.

    Written by Junn Foon, Frank Köhler / Category AMRI / Published 15 June 2022
  • Early humans across southern Africa made a particular type of stone tool - the backed artefact- in the same shape, showing that the populations must have been in contact with each other.
    AMRI

    Socialising to survive

    Earlier exits of H. sapiens from Africa were overprinted by the big exit around 60-70,000 years ago. Why was this exodus so successful when the earlier excursions were not? A new study by an international team of scientists confirm that social networking was key to this success.

    Written by Dr Amy Way, Meagan Warwick / Category AMRI / Published 10 June 2022
  • Fa'agalu leading Sāmoan group at the Motu of Western Sydney Production
    At the Museum

    A Tribute to Sāmoan men and women of the Mau

    In this tribute to Sāmoan men and women of the Mau, renowned Sāmoan ambassador Fa’agalu Dominic Taeoalii Fonoti shares highlights of his career.

    Written by Moemoana Schwenke / Category At the Museum / Published 09 June 2022
    First Nations Pacific Culture Sāmoa
  • Group photograph of the Samoan Mau in front of their Vaimoso office
    At the Museum

    Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Sāmoa’s Independence

    The Australian Museum celebrates alongside Sāmoans as they celebrate 60 years of independence on the 1st of June 2022.

    Written by Moemoana Schwenke / Category At the Museum / Published 01 June 2022
    First Nations Pacific Culture Sāmoa
  • Nadiah Roslan using the FrogID app
    AMRI

    Recording absence records on the FrogID app

    The FrogID app now includes the ability to let us know when no frogs are calling - an ‘absence’ or ‘null’ record, adding scientific value to the FrogID dataset.

    Written by Dr Jodi Rowley, Nadiah Roslan / Category AMRI / Published 31 May 2022
  • Dr Patrick Smith and team looking for ancient fossils
    Explore magazine

    Explore podcast episode 1: Animal mysteries

    In this episode, ancient creatures of Central Australia are unearthed by Australian Museum palaeontolgist Patrick Smith, while back in the present, frog expert Jodi Rowley hunts for answers to explain the mass frog die-off that plagues the eastern states.

    Written by Alice Gage / Category Explore magazine / Published 26 May 2022
    Explore podcast
  • One Way Ticket to Hell 2012-2020
    Explore magazine

    Explore podcast episode 2: Unsettled - Our untold history revealed

    In this episode, Laura McBride – Wailwan and Kooma woman, and Director, First Nations at the Australian Museum – shares three important pieces from the AM’s award-winning exhibition, Unsettled.

    Written by Alice Gage / Category Explore magazine / Published 26 May 2022
    First Nations Explore Unsettled podcast
  • Dr Rocky de Nys and Sam Elsom from Sea Forest
    Explore magazine

    Explore podcast episode 3: Reasons for hope

    Tune in to this episode as we look to science, innovation and First Nations knowledges to learn how one young Australian is detoxifying the ocean and atmosphere, and what the world’s oldest link between humans and the land can teach us about managing the environment.

    Written by Alice Gage / Category Explore magazine / Published 26 May 2022
    Explore podcast
  • Tim O'Hara (Museums Victoria), Chief Scientist about the RV Investigator
    Explore magazine

    Explore podcast episode 4: The discovery of new species

    In the final episode of Explore season one, we head out into the field to discover how the Australian Museum’s Chief Scientist Professor Kris Helgen and palaeontologist Dr Patrick Smith identify new species, and what it means to add new branches to the Tree of Life.

    Written by Alice Gage / Category Explore magazine / Published 26 May 2022
    Explore AMRI podcast
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AM in the News

  • AM free entry with Minerals Gallery highlight  Channel 9 - A Current Affair
    26 Dec 2022
  • ‘Remarkable Australian story’: Tiny Jurassic teeth rewrite history of mammals  The Sydney Morning Herald
    16 Dec 2022
  • There was one clear winner in Sydney’s battle of the museums  The Sydney Morning Herald
    28 Nov 2022
  • FrogID Week needs citizen scientists to record frog calls in the name of conservation  ABC News
    14 Nov 2022
  • Ancient stone tools uncovered on Norfolk Island by Australian archaeologists will rewrite history  Australian Geographic
    29 Oct 2022

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The Australian Museum respects and acknowledges the Gadigal people as the First Peoples and Traditional Custodians of the land and waterways on which the Museum stands.

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