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News Stories

A new blog series investigating the stories and images from the earliest collection of photographs in the Museum's history.

What are polychaetes and why International Polychaete Day?

How does the largely unexplored world of biodiversity living within us all affect wildlife management?

We discover that Australian estuarine worms hitch a lift up and down the coast using currents!

How do you move a 3.5-metre-high elephant skeleton that weighs more than 270 kilograms and yet is extremely delicate?

For once, let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Scientists worldwide can access the Museum’s collections through specimen loans.

La Perouse Aboriginal shell artists Esme Timbey and Marylin Russel keep alive a contemporary craft.

Feather stars are beautiful marine animals that may be under threat. A recent AMRI Fellowship study sheds new light on this enigmatic group.

Unknown diversity of tiny brown frogs just discovered, but some undiscovered species may already be extinct.

The 2015 Australian Museum Science Festival seeks volunteers for an explosive week of interactive science!

Limestone caves are a great natural laboratory for observing how geological processes work.

Four new and five known species mark the beginning of research into the Amphipod Crustaceans of Timor-Leste.

The recipe for seed beetle diversity is a mixture of co-evolution and adaptation, with time stirred in.

Our ability to detect the illegal trade in a threatened Australian snake species has just increased.