Blog archive:
June 2009

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.

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

Researchers around the world will have full online access to 157 years of scientific knowledge published in the Records of the Australian Museum.

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.

Imagine trying to track in the open seas the migration of fishes that are only a few millimetres to a centimetre long.

Using the latest technologies, archaeologists are digging for new insights into Indigenous trading routes.

Dr Jodi Rowley has been recording midnight frog calls in Vietnam, Cambodia and southern China to inform future conservation programs.

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.

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

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.