Blog archive:
March 2023

  • Spotting fossil anomalies

    Russell Bicknell, our 2021/22 Australian Museum Foundation/Australian Museum Research Institute Visiting Research Fellow, recently explored the trilobites in the Australian Museum palaeontology collection. Russell tells us more about spotting fossil anomalies!

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    Dr Russell Bicknell
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    Palaeontology Collection Area 2018

  • Gobsmacking goby fish species found in museums

    An exquisite new species of goby has just been described – and it was found in a museum! A new publication co-authored by Dr Yi-Kai Tea, the Australian Museum’s Chadwick Biodiversity Research Fellow, describes these showstopping fishes and highlights the importance of taxonomic research in museums.

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    Yi-Kai Tea
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    Nemateleotris helfrichi (left), and the newly described N. lavandula (right). Both species were previously regarded as a single species.

  • The Photographic Archives Digitisation (PAD) Project

    The Australian Museum Photographic Archives host a vast collection championing biological, ecological, and ethnographic research, education, and discovery.

    At the Museum
    Giorgia Gakas
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    Oliver Chalmers, former Curator of Minerals, in protective headwear while studying Australites in central South Australia

  • Five Things: How to help our native bees

    Discover five things you can do to bring native bees into your garden, as native bee taxonomist, Michael Batley, discusses their importance, beauty and diversity.

    At the Museum
    Australian Blue-Banded Bee

  • Five Things: How to create a thriving native garden

    Listen to a Q&A with Clarence Slockee as he shares tips on how to make your garden a haven for native plants and wildlife.

    At the Museum
    Clarence Slockee is a Cudgenburra/Bundjalung Aboriginal man and Director of the 100% Aboriginal owned cultural landscape and design company, Jiwah

  • Five Things: How to help save the frogs

    Listen to journalist and author, Ali Gripper, as she sits down with Dr Jodi Rowley for an intimate Q&A on Jodi’s life's work and to learn five things we can do to make our gardens frog-friendly.

    At the Museum
    Cape York Graceful Treefrog (Litoria bella)