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Healthy frog populations may help keep disease-carrying mosquitos at bay, but not in the way you might expect.

Zircons are gemstones found along volcanic fields in eastern Australia, Asia and Russia. Research follows the trail of their origins.

Do fossil tetragonal Mesozoic tubes belong to the ancestors of the worms living in the deep sea today?

AMRI's Yanan Sun wins the Best Student Poster Award for her presentation on invasive calcareous tubeworms.

Fossils of treecreepers and a new species of a sittella add to the growing picture of Australia’s past songbird diversity.

Few people have heard of clam shrimps, yet in many desert pools they are abundant and diverse.

The new, the different and the weird! In the last 12 months, AMRI scientists have discovered and described some amazing creatures.

When it comes to finding their way in the endless blue, baby fish are better at navigating when swimming in groups rather than on their own.

We take the plunge to find out why Damselfish larvae swim in different directions in different regions.  

Two Asian frog species are now officially more threatened than the Giant Panda

Strange and new species of opossum shrimp (Crustacea: Mysida/Lophogastrida) revealed in the Australian Museum collection.

Our study of one of Australia's most secretive marsupials sheds light on how changes to forests have enriched biodiversity

A tiny little frog that looks almost the same as another species has just been revealed from the imperiled forests of Southeast Asia

AMRI, Scottish and Vietnamese wildlife forensic scientists excited to see the difference their collaboration can make to real-world issues

The Australian Museum used to have its own richly-decorated limestone cave