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Listen to the live recording of Schindler's Ark author Thomas Keneally in conversation with AM Director Kim McKay.

Read pioneering ecologist Professor Lesley Hughes's inspiring speech on the occasion of her acceptance of the 2019 AMRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

The AM is creating a renewed museum to match its world-class collection.

Over the past few years local leaders Chief Esau Kekeubata and Tommy Esau have worked with the AM to pioneer community-lead conservation in the heart of mountainous Malaita.

Scaly-footed snails from active black smoker chimneys hit the IUCN Red List of endangered species.

The bloodworm, Marphysa sanguinea, originally described from the UK was once thought to be found around the world. New evidence reveals this is not the case, it has a much narrower distribution and there are many more species than previously thought.

An extinct species of bristlebird has been discovered in 18-million-year-old rocks in northwestern Queensland

From a land down under, stripeys swim across the equator.

Experience the award-winning eco-poetry of Craig Santos Perez from the University of Hawaiʻi, as he reflects on the vital role of Pacific literature in the environmental movements of Oceania.

From the Solomon Islands Eyelash Frog to green-blooded skinks, the upcoming herpetology expedition to Malaita is certain to reveal a plethora of strange and marvellous creatures.

There's more than meets the eye to these worm-like creatures.

Lesley Green (University of Cape Town) considers how environmentalism squares with anti-racism and social justice in the sourcing of `green’ commodities from the sands of South Africa.

A new tool for monitoring the “urbanness” of bird communities reveals that some birds are more equal than others.

The Purple House is a home away from home for First Nations dialysis patients.

With a velvet worm thrown in for good measure.