Blog archive:
March 2020

A strange beetle larva was brought to the Australian Museum. It turned out to be only the third collection of its family in Australia and a new species!

For the past few years several lakes in NSW have been subjected to a seasonal influx in Cassiopea population. Usually at home in far warmer waters, this tropical jellyfish has migrated south to live all year round.

Museum collections provide a treasure trove of undiscovered species, and in this case the newly discovered and beautiful Bloody Perchlet, Plectranthias cruentus, was a jigsaw puzzle put together from old and new.

A new study that uses DNA metabarcoding on cryptic red snapper species (family Lutjanidae), has provided new insights into their diet strategies and adaptations required for their coexistence.

A new, DNA-based frog survey technique means bloodsucking insects can help scientists find and conserve threatened frog species.

Taxonomists strive to bring order to the chaos we call the diversity of life by naming species and sorting them into higher taxa, like genera and families. Needless to say that this undertaking comes with its own problems.

Could the introduced Cane Toad be partly to blame for mid-size mammal declines in northern Australia?

The application of DNA barcoding by AM researchers has been used to unravel the species complex of Heterolepisma sclerophyllum, as well as to investigate silverfish phylogenies in the remote islands off Eastern Australia

Although populations of the threatened Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby are now patchily distributed across the mountain ranges of the southeastern Australian semi-arid zone, a new genetic study has revealed evidence of historic connectivity.