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Fascinating stories hidden amongst the Australian Museum’s most important records
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/fascinating-stories-australian-museums-records/The Australian Museum Trust Minutes reveals fascinating stories of the life of the museum.
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Prehistoric sea scorpions once terrorised Australia
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/prehistoric-sea-scorpions-once-terrorised-australia/A new study has revealed an unexpected diversity of fossil sea scorpions (distant cousins of modern-day scorpions) that once swam across Australia, between 390–436 million years ago.
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Winning Wildlife Images on Show
https://australian.museum/about/organisation/media-centre/winning-wildlife-images-on-show/A stunning image of a bluebottle washed ashore is among the 100 award-winning images in the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, opening at the Australian Museum on 28 March 2015.
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Sydney’s famous funnel-web spider splits into three!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sydneys-famous-funnel-web-spider-splits-into-three/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.
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Flying Frogs: the aerodynamic amphibians
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/aerodynamic-amphibians/Some frogs have well and truly taken a leap into the trees
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Explore podcast episode 1: Animal mysteries
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/explore-podcast-ep-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.
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Communicating science
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/communicating-science/Deborah Smith, from UNSW's Faculty of Science, spoke to Alex Danilatos about careers in science communication.
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Meet Africa’s first pygmy seahorse, the Sodwana pygmy seahorse
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/meet-africas-first-pygmy-seahorse-the-sodwana-pygmy-seahorse/Seahorse scientists have identified a new pygmy seahorse species in Sodwana Bay, South Africa, the first of its kind found in African waters and the Indian Ocean.
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Valuing mud
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/valuing-mud/In 1929 the Australian Museum was asked to value Deep Sea Mud samples.
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Explore podcast episode 4: The discovery of new species
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/explore-podcast-ep-4-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.
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