Blog archive: AMRI
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Understanding the relational nature of citizen science: Insights from FrogID
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.
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Meet the new chief of the South African reefs: The Sodwana Pygmy Pipehorse
Scientists from the Australian Museum and Iziko South African Museum have identified a new species of pygmy pipehorse from subtropical South Africa, Cylix nkosi.
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Saving our koalas: using genomics to enhance conservation outcomes
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.
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The Coastal Lobe-lipped Bat: a new range-restricted species from the coastal lowlands of southern Papua New Guinea
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.
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What’s that frog? Putting the public to the test with frog call identification
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?”
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FrogID dataset 5.0: the largest source of Australian frog data ever released
Close to 800,000 Australian frog records now online and open access for conservation.
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Communities on the front line during a frog conservation emergency
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.
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Critical minerals - rare gems
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.
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Museum specimens untangle the confusing genetic patterns seen in north-west Australian rock-wallabies
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.
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What’s in a whistle? Your go-to guide for telling frog whistles apart
Citizen science data from the FrogID project helped document the distribution and advertisement call variability in five species of tree frog.
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Museum genetics solves 88 year-old tree-kangaroo puzzle
An examination of DNA extracted from tree-kangaroo specimens in the Australian Museum collection has confirmed that the mysterious Dendrolagus deltae, described as a new species from southern New Guinea in 1936, is not a valid species but the result of some erroneous locality information.
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Devastating coral bleaching in 2024
The fifth mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the past eight years was declared in April 2024.
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Where are Australia’s frogs? Introducing the latest Australian Frog Atlas
With seven new frog species described to science and over a million frog records at our fingertips, we revise and update the Australian Frog Atlas – the most detailed, up-to-date distribution maps of all Australia’s 254 frog species.
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Norfolk Island Polynesian adze-making site results just published
The first new archaeological site excavated on Norfolk Island in almost 30 years expands our knowledge of local Polynesian settlement. Evidence from a recently excavated stone-working site has now been published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania.
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Three new endemic species of Weedfish from Temperate Australia
Living among the seaweed of our temperate rocky reefs are fishes of the family Clinidae, aptly called Weedfish.
