Australian Museum
News Stories

The Australian Museum celebrates alongside Kiribati as they celebrate Independence Day on 12 July.

Found just two hours out of Sydney, a team of Australian Museum scientists have described the Hunter Valley Delma – the first legless lizard species endemic to NSW.

The Australian Museum's new multimillion state of the art Burra (eel) learning space aims to take children on a journey within many cultures and sciences to learn the stories, practices and goals we have of looking after this beautiful country we call home.

The most detailed maps of Australia’s frogs have now been produced and are open access for frog research and conservation.

Continuing research in rainforests of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland has recently resulted in the scientific description of two unique frog species.

Check your frog photos for frog-biting flies and submit them to our study to help us develop a new, DNA based frog detection method.

Each month, a selected blog from Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) is featured at the AM. LIRRF supports scientific research & education at the AM’s Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. This month, we feature: Learning from the cleaners and their clients.

In a fierce rivalry surpassed only by rugby players, Australian waters are home to creatures that are not seen in Aotearoa New Zealand. Or . . . are they? Cephalopod expert, Dr Mandy Reid at the Australian Museum, explores further.

Earlier this week, thousands of Sāmoan and Pacific Islander diaspora gather at Liverpool’s Whitlam Centre to celebrate 60 Years of Sāmoan Independence.

Author and social researcher Rebecca Huntley explores how images can hold the solution to a better climate future in the Australian Museum’s Talbot Oration.

A new study by Australian Museum researchers sheds light on the impacts of the 2019-2020 wildfires on land snails in north-eastern NSW.

Earlier exits of H. sapiens from Africa were overprinted by the big exit around 60-70,000 years ago. Why was this exodus so successful when the earlier excursions were not? A new study by an international team of scientists confirm that social networking was key to this success.

In this tribute to Sāmoan men and women of the Mau, renowned Sāmoan ambassador Fa’agalu Dominic Taeoalii Fonoti shares highlights of his career.

The Australian Museum celebrates alongside Sāmoans as they celebrate 60 years of independence on the 1st of June 2022.

The FrogID app now includes the ability to let us know when no frogs are calling - an ‘absence’ or ‘null’ record, adding scientific value to the FrogID dataset.