A new list of 404 Australian mammal species is a crucial conservation step in the face of the ongoing extinction crisis.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Australian Museum
The Australian Museum is a dynamic source of reliable scientific information and a touchstone for informed debate about some of the most pressing environmental and social challenges facing our region: the loss of biodiversity, a changing climate and the search for cultural identity.
Underpinning its research is an irreplaceable collection of international standing – more than 18 million objects representing a timeline of the environmental and cultural histories of the Australian and Pacific regions.
Links
Displaying all articles
Shared designs for stone tools across southern Africa show early humans had wide social connections before beginning to migrate to the rest of the world.
It’s typically rare to see a dead frog. Yet, we’ve received a flurry of emails from people coming across them in this truly unusual, and tragic, mass death event.
The ancestors of modern-day people living on Southeast Asian islands likely interbred with a prehistoric species called Denisovans - raising the possibility of fresh and intriguing fossil discoveries.
Not all frogs ‘ribbit’ — some sound like a motorbike changing gears or a tennis ball being hit. This summer, keep your eyes and ears out for these Aussie frogs.
Some 45 frog species, included some rare and threatened, were recorded calling after the fires.
The Kaputar rock skink is thought to have have one of the smallest ranges of any reptile in New South Wales – at the summit of a single extinct volcano, Mount Kaputar.
After the bushfires, we went looking for endangered corroboree frogs. Normally, they respond to our calls. But at some sites, the ponds were silent.
During the Paleozoic Era, giant sea scorpions would have been the equivalent of a great white shark in their food web.
South Africa is home to four other seahorse species, but this was the first time a pygmy seahorse had been observed in South Africa, let alone Africa.
Among the most haunting and evocative images of Australian wildlife are the black and white photographs of the last Thylacine, languishing alone in Hobart Zoo. It’s an extraordinary reminder of how close…
With more than half a million people participating in last Sunday’s Clean Up Australia Day, it’s perhaps not surprising that some odd objects came to light. Not all the rubbish was on land, and not all…
Gump has lived a cossetted life, nurtured in a cage on Christmas Island. Until last year, she had two acquaintances, but misadventure claimed them both. Now there is only Gump. She’s the last known individual…
Natural history collections housed in museums and herbaria are generally not on display to the public – what visitors see represents only a tiny section of the wealth held behind locked doors. What use…
Marine scientists at the Australian Museum have sounded the alarm over an invasive underwater worm discovered in Sydney’s Botany Bay – the farthest north the pest has ever been spotted in NSW. The European…
Authors
-
Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Sydney, and Archaeologist, Australian Museum
-
Collection Manager of Entomology, Australian Museum
-
Research Associate, Australian Museum
-
Scientific Officer, Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics, Australian Museum
-
John Evans Memorial Fellow, Australian Museum
-
Chief Scientist and Director, Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum
-
Principal Research Scientist, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Australian Museum
-
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Museum
-
Technical Officer - Palaentology, Australian Museum
-
Head of Cultural Collections, Conservation and Consulting, Australian Museum
-
Associate Director, Collection Enhancement Project, Australian Museum
-
Collection Manager, Marine Invertebrates, Australian Museum
