Blog archive:
September 2017

Using genetics, AMRI scientists investigated the pathways of an invasive Mediterranean fan worm as a basis for future biosecurity policies.

A story about a meteorite from the central west of NSW that has been part of the Australian Museum collection for 83 years.

Boat – a craft and its meaning, example from Massim Region, Papua New Guinea.

We uncover beautiful threatened species as part of the latest Bush Blitz survey in Mungo National Park

A potentially deadly pathogen is infecting frogs in Vietnam, but is it causing frog population declines?

With a face only a mother could love.

A live recording on the 2017 Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) Lifetime Achievement Awards.

AM's DigiVol team has more than doubled the number of Collections being digitised within the last six months.

Almost everything about the Dingo is controversial, including its scientific name.

The first step towards successful conservation is to know the creature exists.

In 1981 Anthropologists celebrated the ‘return to Vanuatu of an important ceremonial slit drum … one of only five surviving in the world’.

Gemstones flash brightly for Australian Museum Geoscience activities at present.

One of the greatest challenges currently facing wild animal and plant populations is tackled in a new book.