Blog archive: May 2024
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AMRI
What’s in a whistle? Your go-to guide for telling frog whistles apart
Citizen science data from the FrogID project helped document the distribution and advertisement call variability in five species of tree frog.
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At the Museum
Saturday Lecture Series: Battle of Kadesh
Macquarie University’s Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga explores how Ramses II turned a military disaster at the Battle of Kadesh into a public relations.
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At the Museum
Saturday Lecture Series: Monumental Architecture
Macquarie University’s Dr Gillian Smith celebrates the architectural enormity of the Ramesside period with her exploration of Abu Simbel, the Ramesseum & Luxor’s Karnak Temple Complex.
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AMRI
Museum genetics solves 88 year-old tree-kangaroo puzzle
An examination of DNA extracted from tree-kangaroo specimens in the Australian Museum collection has confirmed that the mysterious Dendrolagus deltae, described as a new species from southern New Guinea in 1936, is not a valid species but the result of some erroneous locality information.
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AMRI
Devastating coral bleaching in 2024
The fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the past eight years was declared in April 2024.
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At the Museum
Saturday Lecture Series: Ramses Street
Join archaeologist Candace Richards for the fifth of our Saturday Lecture Series, where we explore the entwined histories of Egypt and early modern Australia, in an effort to understand how Egypt’s cultural heritage found its way Down Under.
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At the Museum
Museum displays: Invertebrate and Vertebrate Tree
See behind the scenes photographs featuring the construction of the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Tree, both popular displays, opened in 1959 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Charles Darwin's publication, ‘On the Origin of Species'.
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At the Museum
Bringing a funerary net back to life
Discover the beautiful ancient Egyptian faience net on display in the 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum exhibition, restored by hand by the Australian Museum conservation team.
