The Australian Museum Blog

AMRI

Without taxonomists, we won't know what species we have and what species we're driving to extinction

Written by Dr Penny Berents, Dr Pat Hutchings / Category AMRI / Published 12 February 2015

Taxonomic groups Marine invertebrate blog

Science

Story embedded in Javanese tradition.

Written by Dr Stan Florek / Category Science / Published 12 February 2015

Museullaneous

DigiVol volunteers help to advance science by digitising collections in preparation for study by researchers.

Written by Leonie Prater / Category Museullaneous / Published 10 February 2015

Digivol Blog

Science

Putting heads together in the Japanese collection.

Written by Dr Stan Florek / Category Science / Published 10 February 2015

Education

Our recent Scientist for a Day program kicked off 2015 with the exploration of science and culture.

Written by Ashleigh Harrington / Category Education / Published 06 February 2015

Scientist for a Day kids science blog

AMRI

What makes Australian mammals so interesting?

Written by Dr Mark Eldridge / Category AMRI / Published 06 February 2015

Australian wildlife Mammalogy blog mammals

AMRI

Detecting tiny exotic flies just got easier thanks to DNA barcoding, and now we also know where they came from.

Written by Andrew Mitchell / Category AMRI / Published 05 February 2015

entomology blog DNA

Science

A mosaic of hair-styles, colours, languages and blurry boundaries.

Written by Dr Stan Florek / Category Science / Published 05 February 2015

Melanesia blog Anthropology