Blog archive: February 2023
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AMRI
FrogID Week 2022 – over 32,000 frog records gathered for research and conservation
FrogID Week has once again rapidly gathered data for frog conservation, receiving more than 3 frog records per minute and gathering more than 32,000 frog records from over 4,600 concerned citizen scientists. We are also excited to announce our Top Frogger of 2022!
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Explore magazine
Tiny specimens: Restoring the Museum's smallest specimens
In the lab at the Australian Museum, conservator Clare Kim brings her steady hand and laser sharp concentration to minute insect specimens under a microscope.
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Explore magazine
New acquisition: Stephen’s Banded Snake
This year the Australian Museum Herpetology Department travelled to the Border Ranges, to collect a specimen of the threatened Stephen’s Banded Snake.
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Science
Aboriginal boomerangs and King Tutankhamun
In 1910, Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), a French Egyptologist, sent two Egyptian throwing sticks (boomerangs) to the Australian Museum. Watch Dr Stan Florek reveal more about these objects.
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At the Museum
Progress Shark
Our giant shark has been transformed as part of Sydney WorldPride’s Rainbow City.
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Explore magazine
New acquisition: The Coughran Crayfish Collection
The Coughran Crayfish Collection, containing many specimens from remote and very difficult-to-access rainforest localities was recently acquired by the Australian Museum.
