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Surveying the “roof of Indochina” for two of Vietnam’s most threatened frogs.

An expedition linking scientific and traditional knowledge to document frog species in the mountains of Malaita, Solomon Islands.

Intern Ruby Bruce gives insight into her three weeks at the Australian Museum's innovative wildlife DNA laboratory.

Read pioneering ecologist Professor Lesley Hughes's inspiring speech on the occasion of her acceptance of the 2019 AMRI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Over the past few years local leaders Chief Esau Kekeubata and Tommy Esau have worked with the AM to pioneer community-lead conservation in the heart of mountainous Malaita.

Scaly-footed snails from active black smoker chimneys hit the IUCN Red List of endangered species.

The bloodworm, Marphysa sanguinea, originally described from the UK was once thought to be found around the world. New evidence reveals this is not the case, it has a much narrower distribution and there are many more species than previously thought.

An extinct species of bristlebird has been discovered in 18-million-year-old rocks in northwestern Queensland

From a land down under, stripeys swim across the equator.

From the Solomon Islands Eyelash Frog to green-blooded skinks, the upcoming herpetology expedition to Malaita is certain to reveal a plethora of strange and marvellous creatures.

There's more than meets the eye to these worm-like creatures.

A new tool for monitoring the “urbanness” of bird communities reveals that some birds are more equal than others.

With a velvet worm thrown in for good measure.

In 1966 two Bathurst naturalists sent some lizards to the Australian Museum. Fifty years later it’s been recognised as a distinct species, and the hunt is on to find it again.

To celebrate the centenary of the American Mammal Society, we were invited to summarise the major advances in our understanding of marsupial classification and evolution over the last 25 years.