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Despite their reputation as urban hooligans, Cockatoos seldom vandalised their tags, allowing citizen scientists to study 100% of birds.

Staff from AMRI mammal collection published the first catalogue of mammal type specimens in the Collection since Krefft's list of 1864.

The Australian Museum's Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics (ACWG) has collaborated globally to develop an identification test for seized rhino horn.

Marsupial moles and bandicoots are related according to first genomic-scale data for Australian marsupials.

Australasian Fishes is the AM's latest foray into community driven citizen science and has already had an unprecedented impact.

On a seemingly unremarkable hill in north Queensland something remarkable appears to be happening to wallaby's tails.

The AM's ACWG teams up with wildlife forensics labs around the world to develop a new database to promote improved forensic standards.

Marine biodiversity of the Southwest Pacific amazes.

Vivacious artist, educator and custodian.

Using genetics, AMRI scientists investigated the pathways of an invasive Mediterranean fan worm as a basis for future biosecurity policies.

A story about a meteorite from the central west of NSW that has been part of the Australian Museum collection for 83 years.

Boat – a craft and its meaning, example from Massim Region, Papua New Guinea.

We uncover beautiful threatened species as part of the latest Bush Blitz survey in Mungo National Park

A potentially deadly pathogen is infecting frogs in Vietnam, but is it causing frog population declines?

With a face only a mother could love.