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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.

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