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Bone density in big cats: zoos vs. the wild

A recent study by an international team of scientists has tested the expectation that big cats in the wild exhibit greater skeletal density than their captive counterparts. The results of which affect future comparative studies and rewilding programs!

1 April 2022

Professor Tim Flannery with the opalised jaw of one of the oldest monotremes in Australia.

Creatures great and small: Origins of monotremes revealed

Monotremes are iconic Australasian species. But the origins of these species have continually raised questions for scientists; why aren’t they more present in the fossil record and why can we only find them in Australia and New Guinea? An international team with AM scientists find the answers!

28 March 2022

Vale Neil Balnaves

The Australian Museum honours the legacy of one of Australia’s leading arts philanthropists, Neil Balnaves.

1 March 2022

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Moana Toa: Pasifika female leadership series – The Hon. Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa, Prime Minister of Sāmoa

The Moana Toa series celebrates International Women’s Day by highlighting a selection of Pasifika women leaders and recognising their contribution towards gender equality.

13 April 2022

Conserving Australia’s Mahogany glider

Australian Museum scientist, Dr Stephen Jackson, leads the publication of the recovery plan for the endangered mahogany glider.

5 April 2022

Patient Zero, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Patient Zero: stories of disease outbreaks

In conversation with Joel Werner and Olivia Willis, co-winners of the 2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.

1 April 2022

Lord Howe Island woodhen and snail populations crawling back to life following rodent cull ABC News
2 May 2022
Floods may ramp up fungus threat for frogs The West Australian
11 Apr 2022
What lives under the Tathra Wharf? Marine scientists take a look ahead of major restoration works Bega District News
25 Mar 2022
Professor’s pandemic project rewrites origin of mysterious monotremes The Sydney Morning Herald
25 Mar 2022
Jurassic World by Brickman Mummy to Twins plus One
22 Mar 2022

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Timeline of frontpage design of Records of the Australian Museum.

Access all areas: Records joins influential global Open Access index

The Records of the Australian Museum has long followed the principles of free, accessible and timely scientific publication – now, these principles have been rewarded by the journal’s admission to a prestigious publishing index.

25 March 2022

Photographs showing the loss of hard and soft corals between February 2016 and January 2018

News from LIRS: The functioning of future coral reefs: fishes, sediments and productivity

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. For this month, we feature: The functioning of future coral reefs.

16 March 2022

A tribute to Ken Coles AM

Ken Coles AM was a Trustee of the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) from 1991 to 2015 and Chair from 1994 to 2012. During this time he transformed the Foundation and the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS). Charlie Shuetrim AM writes a tribute to Ken Coles AM.

18 February 2022

Moana Toa: Pasifika female leadership series – Professor Katerina Teaiwa

The Moana Toa series celebrates International Women’s Day by highlighting a selection of Pasifika women leaders and recognising their contribution towards gender equality.

18 March 2022

Anaseini Ulakai, Waskam Emelda Davis and Miriama Simmons

Moana Toa: Pasifika female leadership series – Waskam Emelda Davis

The Moana Toa series celebrates International Women’s Day by highlighting a selection of Pasifika women leaders and recognising their contribution towards gender equality.

11 March 2022

Coming soon: Burra

Burra – the AM’s upcoming, interactive children’s education space – is due to open in July 2022. Burra offers a ‘many-ways’ experience where First Nations and Pasifika knowledge systems and Western science are brought together in layers of learning.

24 January 2022

This figure shows the diversity of seaweed in the GSR

How to hijack climate change: Tips from vagrant fish

Hotter and drier summers in Australia bring with them massive fires, successive bleaching on coral reefs and widespread die-offs of our valuable kelp forests. Although all may seem doom and gloom in our oceans, some species are surprisingly resourceful and can even take advantage of warmer waters.

29 November 2021

Counting frogs counts as critical climate action

Something remarkable happens when we see another species’ predicament with the same compassion as we might see our own.

23 November 2021

The Climate Cure: The inaugural Talbot Oration

Professor Tim Flannery outlines his manifesto for humanity’s survival of the “climate emergency” in the Australian Museum’s (AM) inaugural Talbot Oration.

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3 June 2021

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