Blog archive: AMRI
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A wooden shield from Kamay-Botany Bay gives insights into pre-European Aboriginal exchange systems
Captain James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks thought they had collected a shield made in Botany Bay...
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Kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos, oh my!
All you ever wanted to know about these species and more, is now available in one new book!
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International Polychaete Day on 1st July 2015
What are polychaetes and why International Polychaete Day?
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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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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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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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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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Miner stocks continue to rise, closing out small consumers
A large-scale research collaboration has discovered why the native Noisy Miner now dominates bird communities in eastern Australia.
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Exploring the diversity of Christmas tree worms in Indo-Pacific coral reefs
Genetics comes to the rescue in solving a mystery surrounding psychedelically coloured marine worms!
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Archaeological science celebrates 40 years
The toolbox for archaeology now contains a diverse collection of highly sophisticated scientific techniques.
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Discovering Australian bristle worms
Old and new species discovered during the first ever survey of a mysterious family of bristle worms in Australian waters
