Australian Museum
News Stories
Read the latest news stories from the Australian Museum.
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Conservation and the invisible hitchhikers
How does the largely unexplored world of biodiversity living within us all affect wildlife management?
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Seaworm populations are more connected than we thought
We discover that Australian estuarine worms hitch a lift up and down the coast using currents!
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Moving Jumbo
How do you move a 3.5-metre-high elephant skeleton that weighs more than 270 kilograms and yet is extremely delicate?
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Message in a bottle
Scientists worldwide can access the Museum’s collections through specimen loans.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Aboriginal shellworkers of La Perouse
La Perouse Aboriginal shell artists Esme Timbey and Marylin Russel keep alive a contemporary craft.
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Seastars of a feather flock together
Feather stars are beautiful marine animals that may be under threat. A recent AMRI Fellowship study sheds new light on this enigmatic group.
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Gone before we know they exist?
Unknown diversity of tiny brown frogs just discovered, but some undiscovered species may already be extinct.
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AMSF 2015: Volunteers wanted!
The 2015 Australian Museum Science Festival seeks volunteers for an explosive week of interactive science!
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Science in the Underworld: a cave experience for students
Limestone caves are a great natural laboratory for observing how geological processes work.
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Light of the East
Four new and five known species mark the beginning of research into the Amphipod Crustaceans of Timor-Leste.
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Trying to explain biodiversity with beetles
The recipe for seed beetle diversity is a mixture of co-evolution and adaptation, with time stirred in.
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DNA tools to curb the illegal pet trade
Our ability to detect the illegal trade in a threatened Australian snake species has just increased.
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Learning Process: The Bow in Question
The double life of wooden bow habou-numa from Lake Kopiago.
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Predator outwitted – nest cages take eggs off the menu
Experiments reveal that endangered White-fronted Chats will accept nest-cages, giving Sydney's population a last hurrah.
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