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Recovery and discovery: rare snails on Lord Howe Island
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/recovery-and-discovery-rare-snails-on-lord-howe-island/

After more than a year rodent-free, two of the Critically Endangered land snails on Lord Howe Island are showing strong signs of recovery – and a closely related mystery species has also reappeared!

FrogID Week 2020 – rapid citizen science data informing frog conservation
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/frogid-week-2020-rapid-citizen-science-data-informing-frog-conservation/

FrogID, an AM citizen science initiative, is rapidly gathering the information we need to help understand and conserve Australia’s frogs.

This month in Archaeology: The origins of money
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-the-origins-of-money/

This month in Archaeology, Dr Way discusses the origins of money examined in the recent PLoS ONE publication, ‘The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe’ by M.H.G. Kuijpers and C. N. Popa.

Lifting the shroud from the marsupials of Turin
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/lifting-the-shroud-from-the-marsupials-of-turin/

Hidden for over a century, a significant historic collection of marsupials and monotremes has been unveiled in Turin, Italy.

This month in Archaeology: The oldest archaeological evidence of insect foods on stone artefacts in the world
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-the-oldest-archaeological-evidence-of-insect-foods-on-stone-artefacts-in-the-world/

New evidence for the oldest insect foods on stone artefacts in the world found in Cloggs Cave in the lands of the Krauatungalung clan of the GunaiKurnai people, in the southern foothills of the Australian Alps

Australian abyssal worms: research reveals the unnamed species living in our deep-sea environments
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/australian-abyssal-worms-research-reveals-the-unnamed-species-living-in-our-deep-sea-environments/

A recently published international study including 30 authors from 19 institutions, led by the Australian Museum, has indicated that over 50 new species of marine worm from the eastern Australian abyss await to be described and named.

Preparing your Eureka Prizes submission: tips for entrants
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/preparing-your-eureka-prizes-submission/

Each year we receive hundreds of entries contributed to by thousands of individuals, which are put through a rigorous judging process to determine just one winner for each prize. We share our insights based on some of the most common mistakes and misconceptions.

Which frogs are best equipped to survive the human world?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/which-frogs-are-best-equipped-to-survive-the-human-world/

We rank Australia’s frog species based on how likely they are to persist in human modified habitats – with some surprising results!

This month in Archaeology: 2020-21 AMF/AMRI Visiting Research Fellow on the Rock Art Recovery Project
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-2020-21-amf-amri-visiting-research-fellow-on-the-rock-art-recovery-project/

Wayne Brennan, a 2020-21 AMF/AMRI Visiting Research Fellow, discusses how scientists and Aboriginal communities work together on the Rock Art Recovery Project - two ways walking together side by side.

Two new species of the world’s largest flying squirrels discovered in the Himalayas by Australian scientists
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/two-new-species-of-the-worlds-largest-flying-squirrels-discovered-in-the-himalayas-by-australian-scientists/

Australian scientists lead an international team that has described and named two new species of gigantic woolly flying squirrels from the Himalayas.