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Genetic data has revealed that the endangered Booroolong Frog is breeding with a more common species, the Eastern Stony Creek Frog, and we must now consider the risks that hybrids may pose to our threatened species.

New research funded by the Australian Museum Foundation, and published in Nature Human Behaviour, indicates Dargan Shelter was occupied as early as the last Ice Age.

It’s been five years since Norfolk Island local, Mark Scott, showed Malacologists from the Australian Museum a small living population of a snail species previously feared to be extinct. After a successful ex situ captive breeding program, scientists are bringing their descendants back home.

Help us understand how Cane Toad calls differ across Australia and around the world. By studying these differences, we can learn more of how they have been able to spread so successfully!

AMRI researchers ran a two-day workshop (11–12 March 2025) at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, aimed to provide the skills required to recognise Australian polychaete families.

Savvy travellers will tell you that the best seat to sit in when you fly into Sydney is the window seat on the left-hand side of the plane.

The seventh annual FrogID Week has once again gathered a vital snapshot for frog conservation thanks to tens of thousands of citizen scientists.

New research shows that keeping fishers away from some reefs increases their catch of Coral Groupers (aka Coral Trout) on other reefs.

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.