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The Papunya paintings are an Australian national treasure and the Australian Museum's most impressive collection of western desert art.

The global trade in wildlife threatens more than just rhinos, elephants and tigers: amphibians are also at risk

Searching for Guadalcanal's lost mammals and a new period of scientific expedition in Solomon Islands

The story of one little birds encounter with a helicopter and its legacy of helping humans to avoid such encounters in the future.

Have you ever wondered how large fish specimens are stored here in the Australian Museum collections?

Dr Tyrone Lavery gives us an insight into the research methods and identification of bat and rat species in the Solomon Islands.

Ensuring amphibians new to science are considered in conservation strategies.

The AM launches an expedition to the Solomon Islands and Bougainville to discover more about fascinating mammals of the western pacific.

A severe bleaching event continues around the AM's Lizard Island Research Station, with hopes falling temperatures will bring reprieve

A study not only confirms that Hydroides amri is distinct from Hydroides brachyacantha, but also includes a cryptic species Hydroides nikae.

Three new genera, 17 new species and records on a further 35 known species, this is not the last word on Maerid Crustaceans

Geochemical analysis of an obsidian tool mistakenly attributed to Rapa Nui challenges current views about societies in the ancient Pacific.

The Australian Museum's research station on the Great Barrier Reef witnesses the devastating effects of climate change

Serendipity, morphology and museum collections combine to determine a new species of blind snake from the southern Northern Territory.

Renewed hope that a mammal thought extinct on the mainland has been given a second chance.