Blog archive: September 2020
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AMRI
Newly discovered fossil species named after Doctor Who
A newly discovered trilobite species has been named after Doctor Who actor Tom Baker, by Australian Museum and University of New South Wales scientists, honouring his legacy encouraging young people into careers in STEM.
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Science
2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the sister-brother Sleek Geeks team taking on the world of water
How do they do it? Meet some of the 2020 AM Eureka Prizes finalists.
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Science
2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the team looking on the bright side of coral reefs
How do they do it? Meet some of the 2020 AM Eureka Prizes finalists.
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AMRI
Frogs surviving the flames: Citizen scientists reveal frogs calling across the fire zone
We have made a big leap in our understanding of how frogs respond to fire, thanks to citizen scientists across Australia!
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AMRI
Tears of the gods in a tube!
A recent study of AMRI collections has led to a revision of records from the southwest Pacific and the recognition of a new species.
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AMRI
How does a land snail become a threatened species?
September 7th, the day the last thylacine died in captivity in 1936, is National Threatened Species Day. Founded to raise awareness of Australia’s plants and animals at risk of extinction, it’s also the occasion of Australia’s Threatened Species Bake-off.
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AMRI
Triage for Australia's lizards and snakes
Which of Australia’s endangered species need our most urgent attention? This was the question facing a group of conservation biologists, including two scientists from the Australian Museum Research Institute, following the most recent round of Red Data Book assessments of our reptiles.
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Museullaneous
Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver
New research by art historian Ann Elias in her book Coral Empires uncovers the full story behind photographer Frank Hurley's iconic images of pearl diving in the Torres Strait in the 1920s.
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AMRI
A tad mysterious: The identity of five fabulous funnel-mouthed tadpoles revealed
When it comes to surveying for rare and threatened frog species, it’s important to be able to identify the tadpoles too!
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AMRI
This month in Archaeology: When did dingoes first come to Australia?
For this month’s blog, we examine a paper recently published by Loukas Koungoulos and Melanie Fillios in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, in order to answer the question: when did dingoes first come to Australia?
