Blog archive: June 2009
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Science
Taxonomists share their expertise for biosecurity
Quarantine scientists recently attended an Australian Museum workshop to improve their skills at identifying invasive Diptera, a large order of insects, many of which pose a threat to Australia's biosecurity.
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Cracking the'genetic code' of gem stones
A research team led by Dr Lin Sutherland, a Senior Fellow in Geoscience at the Australian Museum, has completed a major study on 'genetic' signatures in Australian sapphires and rubies. The study combines precise trace element
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157 years of Australian Museum science at your fingertips
Researchers around the world will have full online access to 157 years of scientific knowledge published in the Records of the Australian Museum.
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Eel biodiversity region discovered
Analysis of specimens collected in the North West Coral Sea has shown that the area has many marine eel species and some are new to science.
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Swimming with the big fish, studying the small
Imagine trying to track in the open seas the migration of fishes that are only a few millimetres to a centimetre long.
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X-ray specs: viewing artefacts in a new light
Using the latest technologies, archaeologists are digging for new insights into Indigenous trading routes.
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Amphibian Conservation in South-East Asia
Dr Jodi Rowley has been recording midnight frog calls in Vietnam, Cambodia and southern China to inform future conservation programs.
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Deep-sea mystery solved as three become one
So dramatic is the metamorphosis of whalefishes that until now scientists thought the larva, adult male and adult female specimens in collections were from three separate families of fishes.
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Helping hand for a vulnerable little chat
Australian Museum researchers are set to begin a new study on the conservation ecology of an iconic inhabitant of coastal saltmarshes, the White-fronted Chat, with funding from Lake Macquarie City Council and the Herman S
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Museullaneous
Public Response to Taxidermy Mounts
Becky Hitchens, a student at Durham University, Museum and Artefact Studies program asks if we have any information about the public's reaction to taxidermy mounts.
