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What We Can Learn from Nature: Australian Museum x Vivid Ideas
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/vivid-learn-from-nature/

Hear from Leila Jeffreys, Tim Low and David Gandelman, as they explore how improving your relationship with nature can improve your relationship with yourself.

Six new species of Western Australian trilobites
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/six-new-species-of-western-australian-trilobites/

Six new species of trilobites have been found deep underground in the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Dr Patrick Smith at the Australian Museum and Heidi Allen from Geological Survey of WA tell us how this discovery has reshaped our understanding of ancient life and geological time in the region.

The Norfolk Island puzzle: Identifying new insect and spider species
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/the-norfolk-island-puzzle-identifying-new-insect-and-spider-species/

The ongoing identification of insect and spider specimens collected during the Australian Museum-led Norfolk Island expedition is throwing up a host of new family and species records & plenty of puzzles. The AM Arachnology & Entomology team tell us about these exciting finds and the work ahead.

Australia’s dazzling flasher wrasses!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/australias-dazzling-flasher-wrasses/

Flasher wrasses are a group of dazzling, colourful little fishes. Of the twenty or so species found globally, three are known to occur in Australia – or so we thought! A new study re-examines this group, and includes a species new to science, named after an Australian Museum superstar.

2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the team behind a citizen science initiative unravelling the mysteries of galaxies
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-prizes-AstroQuest/

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

2020 AM Eureka Prizes: Meet the journalists telling the forgotten stories of Australia's pioneering female computer scientists
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/eureka-prizes-hidden-women-computing/

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

Sparkling Treasures: International coverage for Australian Museum Mineral Collection
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/sparkling-treasures/

The Australian Museum’s spectacular, gemmy Broken Hill rhodonite from the Albert Chapman collection has been featured on the front cover of Mineral Collections in Australia, the Sept/Oct Supplement to the renowned global publication, Mineralogical Record.

Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/hurley-and-the-torres-strait-diver/

New research by art historian Ann Elias in her book Coral Empires uncovers the full story behind photographer Frank Hurley's iconic images of pearl diving in the Torres Strait in the 1920s.

The FrogID dataset: over 126,000 FrogID open-access records now online!
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/frogid-data-dataset-2/

Just in time for FrogID Week 2020, the second annual release of FrogID data is now available to advance frog ecology and conservation in Australia.

This month in Archaeology: Did Neanderthals bury their dead?
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/this-month-in-archaeology-did-neanderthals-bury-their-dead/

Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered a Neanderthal skeleton which appears to have been deliberately buried around 65,000 years ago; Dr Amy Way discusses this recent study.