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Writing from the frontiers of science, culture and education, as well as all the latest news from the Museum. The Australian Museum is a place of exploration and discovery, inspiring responsibility for our world by promoting knowledge, understanding, and enjoyment of science, nature, and culture.
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Renowned Pacific climate champion, Cynthia Houniuhi, tells her story of fighting for change in the world's highest court at Australian Museum’s Talbot Oration ..read more
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In 1858 the Australian Museum acquired William Swainson’s collection of books. The story behind the books and the man who collected them can now be explored in a new section of the AM website ..read more
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The Australian Museum has recently acquired two examples of rare mineral species faceted as gemstones, Stibiotanatalite, antimony, tantalum, niobium oxide, and Tantalite-(Mn), manganese, tantalum oxide ..read more
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During the 2021 winter, frogs across eastern Australia experienced a mass mortality event. While we continue to investigate the cause and impact of these frog deaths, we need your help again this winter to report any sick or dead frogs ..read more
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Close to 800,000 Australian frog records now online and open access for conservation ..read more
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Citizen science data from the FrogID project helped document the distribution and advertisement call variability in five species of tree frog ..read more
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Evaluation of DNA from historical specimens and modern museum samples has enabled an untangling of the complex evolutionary history of four species of rock-wallabies, which are distributed across the Kimberley and Top End ..read more
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Join archaeologist Candace Richards for the fifth of our Saturday Lecture Series, where we explore the entwined histories of Egypt and early modern Australia, in an effort to understand how Egypt’s cultural heritage found its way Down Under ..read more
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Macquarie University’s Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga explores how Ramses II turned a military disaster at the Battle of Kadesh into a public relations ..read more
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An examination of DNA extracted from tree-kangaroo specimens in the Australian Museum collection has confirmed that the mysterious , described as a new species from southern New Guinea in 1936, is not a valid species but the result of some erroneous locality information ..read more