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Dive into the fascinating world where art and science collide and explore how palaeontologists bring ancient life back from the canvas of time.

Reports of unusually large Sydney Funnel-web spiders from around Newcastle led an international team of scientists to take a fresh look at the Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus.

After years of studying snails on Australia’s Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, Drs Isabel Hyman and Frank Köhler began to cast their net wider in search of closely related species.

AMRI researchers are conducting the largest study to date on volutes, a diverse family of shelled molluscs, to expand knowledge about these species, particularly in Australia.

The frogs of the Northern Wheatbelt of New South Wales are poorly sampled. We need your help to document frogs and fill in data gaps so we created a priority map to highlight areas where your FrogID recordings will make the biggest difference to our understanding of frogs!

How the Australian Museum’s collection underpins vital scientific research and informs solutions in the aftermath of the

Agential realism explains how citizen science programs like FrogID go beyond data collection. It acknowledges the interconnectedness of all entities - human and non-human - and encourages a holistic approach to biodiversity conservation based on mutual accountability.

Scientists from the Australian Museum and Iziko South African Museum have identified a new species of pygmy pipehorse from subtropical South Africa, Cylix nkosi.

Koalas in New South Wales are at risk of extinction by 2050. New research highlights the need for targeted conservation efforts to address genetic diversity and maintain habitat connectivity to ensure their survival.

The Coastal Lobe-lipped Bat (Chalinolobus orarius) is a newly named species recognised from museum specimens collected in Papua New Guinea (PNG) previously thought to represent the Hoary Bat (C. nigrogriseus) of northern Australia.

Just how easy is it to tell a Striped Marsh Frog from a Spotted Marsh Frog, just by listening to their calls? Recently, we asked citizen scientists to try their hand at FrogID validating to see just how easy it is to determine “what’s that frog?”

Close to 800,000 Australian frog records now online and open access for conservation.

During the 2021 winter, frogs across eastern Australia experienced a mass mortality event. While we continue to investigate the cause and impact of these frog deaths, we need your help again this winter to report any sick or dead frogs.

The Australian Museum has recently acquired two examples of rare mineral species faceted as gemstones, Stibiotanatalite, antimony, tantalum, niobium oxide, and Tantalite-(Mn), manganese, tantalum oxide.

Evaluation of DNA from historical specimens and modern museum samples has enabled an untangling of the complex evolutionary history of four species of rock-wallabies, which are distributed across the Kimberley and Top End.