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How does a land snail become a threatened species?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/how-does-a-land-snail-become-a-threatened-species-/

September 7th, the day the last thylacine died in captivity in 1936, is National Threatened Species Day. Founded to raise awareness of Australia’s plants and animals at risk of extinction, it’s also the occasion of Australia’s Threatened Species Bake-off.

Do frogs have accents?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/frog-accents/

Citizen scientists enable us to understand just how much frog calls change over time and space.

This month in Archaeology: Early South Australian Riverland occupation dates to at least 29,000 years ago
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-early-south-australian-riverland-occupation/

Recently published research in Australian Archaeology has vastly extended the known timeline of Aboriginal occupation in the Riverland region of South Australia, Dr Amy Way discusses.

2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the scientist who is tackling stigma around mental health
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-prizes-gemma-sharp/

How do they do it? Meet some of the 2020 AM Eureka Prizes finalists.

2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the science educator who knows no bounds
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-prizes-2020-Corey-Tutt/

How do they do it? Meet some of the 2020 AM Eureka Prizes finalists.

2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the innovator, advocate and role model shaping the next generation of cancer research leaders
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-prizes-Kavallaris-Maria/

How do they do it? Meet some of the 2020 AM Eureka Prizes finalists.

The unique frogs of the Solomon Islands: free from a deadly fungus?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/solomon-islands-free-from-deadly-frog-fungus/

The amphibian chytrid fungus, responsible for causing frog declines around the world, may not yet have reached the Solomon Islands.

Bridging the Gap: Using DNA from museum specimens to unlock the secrets of the Bass Strait Island Fauna
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/bridging-the-gap-using-dna-from-museum-specimens-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-bass-strait-island-fauna-/

Did you know that there are over 50 islands in the Bass Strait, the 240 km stretch of ocean that separates mainland Australia and Tasmania? But what of its fauna? Scientists have recently extracted DNA from museum specimens to better understand the evolutionary history of Bass Strait island fauna.

A new species of tiny horned frog found at the top of a mist-shrouded mountain
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/new-species-of-tiny-horned-frog/

An international team from Vietnam, the UK and Australia set off on a mission to find Critically Endangered frog species in the Hoang Lien Range in northern Vietnam – and on the way, they found a species new to science!

What can we learn about wombat habitats from their poo?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/what-can-we-learn-about-wombat-habitats-from-their-poo/

Microbes that live in the guts of mammals can be critical to their health and survival, yet we know little about the microbes that inhabit our unique Australian marsupials. Scientists from the University of Adelaide and the Australian Museum studied the Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat to learn more.