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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.

The forests of central Vietnam adjacent Cambodia are home to five new frog species that have hopefully been discovered in the nick of time

IUCN Red List assessments of several hundred Australian land snail species are currently conducted by AMRI scientists.

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.