Blog archive: April 2015
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Science
‘Red Listing’ to help save Southeast Asia’s Amphibians
A first step in biodiversity conservation is determining which species are most threatened with extinction.
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AMRI
Miner stocks continue to rise, closing out small consumers
A large-scale research collaboration has discovered why the native Noisy Miner now dominates bird communities in eastern Australia.
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Education
Reminiscence Boxes- Connecting with people across Australia
The Australian Museum now has a range of Museum in a Box resources for use in group work with seniors.
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Science
Frogs in the trees
In making the transition from the swamp to the tree-tops, different groups of frogs have evolved in remarkably similar ways.
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Science
Our Global Neighbours: Australia and Turkey at War
The profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
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Museullaneous
Australian Museum staff who served in World War I
An honour roll of the eight staff members who fought in The Great War.
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AMRI
Exploring the diversity of Christmas tree worms in Indo-Pacific coral reefs
Genetics comes to the rescue in solving a mystery surrounding psychedelically coloured marine worms!
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Science
Mimic fish benefit from imperfect impersonations
Animal mimicry can become ineffective if it is used too often, and these canny fish know it.
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Science
Our Global Neighbours: Who owned the Shirase Sword?
Sydney University historian investigates.
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Science
Our Global Neighbours: A Sword of the Country
Aboriginal culture in early colonial Sydney is documented in written and pictorial sources, but a few artefacts from this period exist.
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AMRI
Archaeological science celebrates 40 years
The toolbox for archaeology now contains a diverse collection of highly sophisticated scientific techniques.
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AMRI
Discovering Australian bristle worms
Old and new species discovered during the first ever survey of a mysterious family of bristle worms in Australian waters
